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A photo of a large green in a courtyard outside an academic institution

Two-part Banana Theory installation takes sustainability to Chelsea College parade green

A green outside Chelsea College has been turned into a 12-metre soil and grass installation as part of a project aiming to increase awareness of environmental issues.

a photo of people work shopping around a table at the Design Museum

Museums at Night 2012: A sparkling Christian Louboutin night at the Design Museum

Jenni Davidson slinks around the Design Museum for a fashionable Museums at Night of music, workshops, film and high heels.

A photo of the outside of a gallery designed in cubist style with a still lake in front of it

From Exeter to Edinburgh, final four announced on "truly exceptional" Art Fund Prize shortlist

Ylva French takes a look at Art Fund final four The Hepworth Wakefield, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and the Watts Gallery.

a photo of a couple of people in period dress prancing about a field

Bob & Roberta Smith's Art on the Underground project launches on Central Line for Olympics

Bob & Roberta Smith is the latest artist to engage with Art on the Underground - in readiness for an Olympic surge through the Central Line.

The British Library travels from Wastelands to Wonderlands in impressive haul of British literary manuscripts

The exhibition brings together more than 150 works from the library archives to explore the literature that has been inspired by places and spaces around the British isles.

Black and white photo of a Japanese woman on a balcony

Japanese Red Army makes reappearance thanks to Eric Baudelaire at Gasworks

The French artist brings film and documentation to the South London gallery, with testimonies from May Shigenobu and Masao Adachi.

A black and white overhead drawing of a circular sport stadium

Anne Desmet reveals her Olympic Metamorphoses at PM Gallery and House

Wood-engraved print portraits of the surrounding area and collages of the building phases as the Royal Academy artist responds to the Olympic construction near her home.

a painting of an Elizabethan woman in side profile

Within This Wooden O conjures the time of the Bard at Shakespeare's Globe

The haunting paintings of Rosalind Lyons Hudson are the result of a residency at the Globe Theatre and currently form part of the famous theatre's exhibition and tour programme.

An image of a diagram showing a red square, yellow triangle and blue circle overlapping against black

Bauhaus: Life as Art at the Barbican Art Gallery

From precise watercolours and multiple overlapping circles to lamps, wall hangings, tubular steel chairs and party invites from 1920s Weimar, the Barbican's huge new installation testifies to the......

A textbook page with drawings of a kalashnikov automatic rifle, daggers, pistols and umbrellas to aid counting between 1 to 4.

Kalashnikov schoolbook gives chilling insight into Afghan conflict at National Army Museum

A school textbook at the National Army Museum reveals how the Soviet-Afghan war touched the everyday lives of citizens in Afghanistan.

a detail from an artwork showing an image of a woman taken on an i-phone

Jerwood Space tackles art and the pervading influence of the internet

A new group show at the Jerwood Space in London aims to explore the influence of the constantly-shifting platform of the Internet.

A photo of a young woman staring at a green stone sculpture of a man in a park

Evolutionary David Breuer-Weil sculptures stalk Hanover Square

A set of four primal craggy bronze men, created by sculptor David Breuer-Weil in his Emergence series, appear to rise from the ground in a major new commission at a green refuge in Oxford Circus.

A monochrome photo of a couple dancing with blue tint

Painted love: Corinna Spencer talks Twitter and plywood for new group show on obsession

Transition Gallery in East London is the first of three venues to host the curatorial debut by Coventry-based painter Corinna Spencer.

Colour photo of some sreet art in which a group of foxes chase a dog

Street artist Mau Mau embraces gallery walls with solo show at West Bank

The Devon-born artist who has had sell-out shows in Tokyo mixes social comment with commercial nous in a London appearance.

a series of photographs of bricks on a gallery wall

Photos and drawings reclaim the throwaway in group show at Hoxton Art Gallery

Stephen Gill, Colin Glen, Beatrice Haines, Laura Culham and Janne Malmros all bring focus to meticulous works in Et Cetera.

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