Revealing rare paintings and prints from the Slade and etchings from his Ennui masterpiece, a new exhibition suggests Sickert as one of Britain's finest artists.

Billed as far-fetched and outlandish, the works in the Hayward Gallery's eccentric new show include blueprints to resurrect Paris and the search for unlimited energry.

Armed with a paper "character", visitors to the Science Museum in London this weekend will be able to get tips on living a better life from some of the experts.

Described as a voyeur, madman, conspirator and obsessive, Paul Kindersley leads an afternoon of drawing and performance art with a difference in London this weekend.

A Paul Nash painting hidden from public view for decades features in a war-covering exhibition devoted to the early 20th century prodigies of the Slade School.

In the second part of our series on the exhibit swap going on between ten venues, we get the inside track on amazing artefacts including the earliest lamp.

Marking the 60th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, a scientist-turned-sculptor has created a two-metre high artwork as part of an artist-in-residence programme.

Ever-presents Sir Peter Blake and Gavin Turk return and celebrity bingo and pass the parcel aim to please as the ultimate car boot fair returns for a tenth year.

Global philanthopists have announced BE OPEN Inside the Academy, a showcase of student projects based in a purpose-built listening chamber.

Putting the new-look gallery at the centre of regeneration plans for Waltham Forest, planners say they will make a "real, tangible difference" with the £100,000 flagship museum prize.

A brief display by a Warsaw-based talent house should entice gallery-goers to the Saatchi sharpish, says Ruth Hazard.

Semi-abstract and at times poppy, artists from different generations should find new audiences in a brace of tightly curated exhibitions.

A portrait of the actor, made during his time as Richard III at The Old Vic Theatre, will join paintings of Rupert Murdoch, Erin O’Connor, Grayson Perry and Sienna Miller.

Hailing a "lush and tropical" treat, food artists Bompas and Parr's floating pineapple island at Kew invites visitors to row to a secret banana grotto.

The tower's new permanent display charts a Mint history, from Isaac Newton's time as an astute Warden to a pair of iron dies used to cast coins under Edward III.

The major new exhibition at the British Library offers some compelling insights into how the power of text and images can be used to create social change, says Emily Beeson.

The oft-controversial sculptor has taken an unlikely interest in Renaissance-era saints, as found in the UK's foremost gallery of painting. Mark Sheerin pays it a visit.

The premiere of a new work by light magicians rAndom International hit the headlines at London's Horniman. There was music, dancing and poetry. Gin also materialised.

Ruth Hazard joins five lucky Museums at Night competition winners who visited the fabled Faber Archive in Bloomsbury for literary tales, readings and rare manuscripts.

The dark cube-like Shoreditch gallery's new exhibition is putting the pick of recent graduates in their best light. Mark Sheerin takes a look.

The Swiss artist's first major commission in the UK uses projected metallic shapes to create an illusion across buildings spanning 542 metres.

An exhibition at the De Morgan Collection brings its guidng light - the inimitable Mrs Stirling, a remarkable Battersea resident, author and collector of Victorian art - to light.

From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to Extinct Boids, the cult cartoonist stars in a show of around 100 works, accompanied by accolades from Will Self and Johnny Depp.

The London-based artist has been touring university physics departments for a photography project based on blackboards.

Three years after Newspeak, the West London gallery is back with another selection of UK based talent. Mark Sheerin pays it a visit.

Charting communications from the 19th century to the internet age, organisers say the largest exhibition space at London's Science Museum is a "landmark project".

Ahead of his Museums at Night appearance at the Freud Museum in London, Martin Creed reveals to Culture24's Mark Sheerin why he is a big fan of Freud.

Featuring the works of the son of the Rabbi of Kiev who became an acclaimed New York theatre design via Moscow, Paris and Berlin, the Ben Uri's new show is a dramatic one.

A painter who portrayed his three children growing up and an artist whose sitter was her eldest son are the finalists in the National Portrait Gallery's annual award, which has increased the prize money for the winner to £30,000.

Five times the size of an average person, David Breuer-Weil's monumental bronze sculpture, Alien, has just landed in a garden next to Victoria station. He tells us about it.

In an exhibition collaborated on by Tokyo's Social Welfare Organisation Aiseikai and the Museum of Psychiatry in Haarlem, more than 300 works of Outsider Art - by self-taught artists from the fringes of society - have gone on show in London.

Experts from Museum of London Archaeology say thousands of "beautifully preserved" remains in London could transform our understanding of Roman Britain.

Taken from hundreds of books retrieved from a bookshop in his native Vancouver, Geoffrey Farmer's mini-world sees hundreds of hand puppets invade the Barbican's Curve.

Sophie Nielsen and Rolf Knudsen's mirror chandelier, made for the Queen's Stairs, has joined a "breathtaking" palace, say the Danish design pair.

A massive group portrait of World War I naval officers is to be displayed in time for the WWI centenary in 2014 if the NPG raises the £20,000 needed to restore it.

Photographs, letters, posters and other memorabilia recall the illustrious director's long and influential career in short film.

Curators say Making the Line, which will take work by four leading ceramicists to a trio of historic venues, is unlike anything ever previously attempted at a museum.

Aiming to show people how to remake the world at the centre of University College London, the new Institute of Making will feature more than 1,500 materials.

The new Michael Caine exhibition at the Museum of London is full of iconic images but the curator's favourite, shows Caine relaxing with his 1960s flatmate Terence Stamp.

Obsolete in teaching, limited for research use, poorly documented and a "nightmare" to interpret, Curator Mark Carnall tells us about the Grant's wondrous office of slides.

The Florence Nightingale Museum has acquired a series of ten oil paintings by Victor Tardieu showing the WWI Red Cross field hospital run by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland.

From Copernicus to the Mars Curiosity rover, the Royal Observatory is about to launch a season pondering the hot topic of our intergalactic solitude.

The artist says he hopes to reflect an "individual yet universal experience" which is close to his heart after creating a unique artwork for each of the Underground stations.

The London gallery pulls together 22 artists, from Dan Flavin to Katie Paterson, with specialisms in working with light.

Phone boxes, postboxes, glitzy fashion, lamps and the London 2012 logo all feature in the new permanent display at the Design Museum.

Experts have used X-rays and raking light to reveal the amazing truth behind a wrongly identified Lambeth Palace portrait, putting it on public display in London.

Irish artist Gerard Byrne picks through ephemeral media from the previous century to reanimate past debates for an absorbing exhibition at the Whitechapel.

The capital's longest running fair of its type proves more manageable than its nearest rival with a good mix of new and old. Mark Sheerin takes a look.

The artist otherwise known as Patrick Brill says he is "excited" to find out what the Henry Moore statue at the centre of controversial sell-off plans means to the people.

The German photographer who made his name shooting record sleeves and fashion models demonstrates his parallel artistry and autobiography.