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The Dark Would, Summerhall, Edinburgh

Philip Davenport curates the world premiere of The Dark Would as part of the Summerhall Winter Visual Arts Programme. This exhibition seeks to re-position artists alongside poets and “outsiders” and free up space for a new wave of practitioners.

Interview: Paul Green, Director of the Halcyon Gallery, on Bob Dylan’s New Sculpture Exhibition

Bob Dylan, known more so for his poetry, music and writing, began introducing his artwork to the world with an exhibition of his Drawn Blank Series in 2007 at the Kunstsammlungen in Chemnitz, Germany.

Alex Prager, Face in the Crowd, Corcoran Gallery

Alex Prager has spent the last 10 years constructing imagined scenes for her photographic work. Full of colour, tension and narrative, Prager’s images continue to play with the figure of the woman.

Florian Pumhösl, Lisson Gallery, London

Florian Pumhösl’s minimalist triptychs are available to explore once more at Lisson Gallery. Made up of a series of three plaster panels progressing in size, these works create an abstract visual language.

Review of Ana Mendieta: Traces at the Hayward Gallery, London

Traces marks the UK’s first retrospective of work by Ana Mendieta through a show of films, sculptures, photographs, drawings, personal writings and notebooks, and a slide-room.

Brancusi in New York 1913-2013, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

A whole century after first revealing his work to America at the New York Armory Show, the art of the unofficial torchbearer of modernism, Constantin Brancusi, is celebrated in a new exhibition at Paul Kasmin.

Review of Nostalgic for the Future at Lisson Gallery, London

A group show that proposes a dialogue between historical and contemporary sculpture, attempting to draw a line between a lost past, a sensuous present and an imagined future has to work hard to justify its audacious blurb.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries

Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns to the ICA and will include works by 46 participants. Last year’s edition attracted over 42,000 visitors and highlighted the show as the place to discover the best emerging artists.

AV Festival 14: EXTRACTION, North East England, March 2014

AV Festival 14: EXTRACTION takes place at venues across the North East of England, including Mima, Sage Gateshead, BALTIC, Tyneside Cinema, NGCA, Star & Shadow, Laing Art Gallery and other spaces.

Interview with Glasstress Artist Paul Fryer

Paul Fryer utilises electronic media and sculpture to create installation pieces in unexpected exhibition sites. He presented his first solo show in 2005 at Trolley Gallery and has gone on to show work all over the world.

Review of 3 am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night, The Bluecoat

3 am can be an extraordinary hour when some fear ghosts and monsters are on the prowl, when animals feel able to move without human detection and the young feel able to express themselves freely.

An Album: Cinematheque Tangier, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Tangier-based artist, Yto Barrada probes into the material history and visual culture of her hometown in this multi-layered exhibition of films, artworks, posters and ephemera, on display at Walker Art Center.

Thomas Struth: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 10 January – 22 February 2014

The Marian Goodman Gallery in New York presents a major solo show of Thomas Struth’s photographic art. His work was recently exhibited in a major travelling retrospective.

Review of Calder and Melotti: Children of the Sky at Ronchini Gallery, London

The wide influence of Surrealism on what art looks like takes an odd turn when we think of these artists: Calder and Melotti, currently showing at the Ronchini Gallery.

Jackie Nickerson: Terrain, Brancolini Grimaldi, London

The agriculture of sub-Saharan Africa and the labour of everyday life on the land is brought into focus in this new body of work from Jackie Nickerson, on display at Brancolini Grimaldi from 22 November to 25 January.

Review of Surrealism and the Object at Centre Pompidou, Paris

Although the show presents objects that span the 20th century and move onto contemporary works, there is nothing chronological about the display. The curators must have felt that linear chronology would somehow be anti-surrealist.

Sproxton Award for Photography, London College of Communication

Ruth Campbell became the 10th winner of the annual Sproxton Award for Photography, announced at the London College of Communication’s MA Photography Final Show.

Charlotte Colbert: A Day at Home, Gazelli Art House, London

Photographer and screenwriter Charlotte Colbert playfully examines the link between the imagined and the real in the context of the home in a new exhibition at Gazelli Art House.

Miles Aldridge at the launch of the House of Peroni, London

House of Peroni, London, opens its doors to celebrate Italian style and creativity with Miles Aldridge. Fashion photographer, Aldridge, is inspired by Fellini’s era-defining film, 8 1/2.

Review of Larry Bell: Mirage Collage and the Light Knots at White Cube, London

At London’s legendary White Cube gallery prolific American sculptor Larry Bell presents a survey of new sculpture and paper based works: Mirage Collage and the Light Knots.