French artist Etienne Viard's debut exhibition in Britain reveals his destructive streak within folded, cut maquettes, steel rods and ironwork.

A biographical three-channel film, Unfinished Conversation, brings its meditative charms to Nottingham.

From Titian and Rubens to Rembrandt and Gainsborough, there is a certain magic to the colour red. Alex Connor, whose new book you can win on Culture24, explains why.

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.

A group show at Manchester's Castlefield Gallery takes Margaret Atwood's post-apocalypse novel, The Year of the Flood, as a starting point.

Showcasing a history of astronomical discovery, the National Maritime Museum's fusion of art and science provides a dazzling insight into the universe.

Myth-based paintings and towering watercolours brought out from storage for the first time in decades feature in an exquisite show of the artist and designer's work.

Chagall strove to recreate reality, interpreting the world through allegory and iconography. This selection of his earlier paintings fuses the spiritual and magic with the angular forms of cubist representation, transforming the socio-political landscape of 20th century Russia and Western Europe into a visual fairytale.

Formed as a biennial in 2002, the sixth edition of a playful sculpture show from the Cotswold arrives at an atmospheric London crypt with work by 19 artists.

Designed by the Japanese-born rising star of design, this year's extraordinary Serpentine Pavilion is somewhere between a nest and a cave, says Ruth Hazard.

Describing his works as "salvation for a godless generation", former Vivienne Westwood designer Magnus Gjoen's new exhibition in London adds punk sensibilities to traditional art.

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.

Aiming to follow in the footsteps of alumni such as Julien Macdonald and Rachel Whiteread, this year's Brighton graduates deploy swings, trees and bouncy castles.

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.

Striking ceramics and colourful textile weaving from a pair of internationally acclaimed artists in a new exhibition at Cambridge's Lynne Strover Gallery.

From west coast to east (Blackpool and Margate) and all points between. Here are the best looking art shows for this month.

Jeremy Deller, Alan Kane, Sara Barker and Sam Durant are all on the menu for this summer's outdoor and indoor exhibitions at Jupiter Artland, near Edinburgh.

A ceiling added to help control the gallery environment has been removed as part of an £8 million project which will transform York Art Gallery when it reopens in 2015.

A teacher at the Royal College of Art and Chelsea, influential sculptor Nigel Hall's works in bronze, steel, painted aluminium and MDF are showcased in Cambridge.

Hypnosis, the Loch Ness Monster, images of curious objects by Leonardo Da Vinci and Dürer's 16th century rhinoceros drawings all feature in a show of wonder in Margate.

Sophie von Hellermann's new show Elephant in the Room, at Colchester gallery firstsite, features what is believed to be the largest indoor mural painted by a single artist.

Simon Starling, Gerry Judah, Marcel Karhof and Lori Nix are a few of the artists contributing to a powerful new show contemplating sustainability and human progress.

Tate St Ives' eclectic summer show features eight artists including Linder Sterling, Patrick Heron and Allen Ruppensberg.

In collaboration with a visual arts project and mobile exhibition space, the Museum of Liverpool presents a stunning site-specific photography exhibition.

Led by top artist Susan Forsyth, Museums at Night in Rochdale took the form of a noisy and colourful procession through the Lancashire town. Rosie Clarke joined in.

A 19th century textiles mill on the River Calder, handily positioned opposite The Hepworth Wakefield, will become a major new contemporary arts space.

Visitors to this year's Hay, Grassington, Buxton and Latitude festivals will be able to sit under a star-studded canopy and be inspired by Diana and Callisto and Diana and Actaeon.

As a major new show of UK Land Art gets underway in Southampton, Culture24 maps out a geographical history of the movement.

From Somerset to Cumbria, we look back at some of the reaction to more than 500 events held for Museums at Night 2013, including appearances by leading artists.

Ben Miller reports from Liverpool where the city's Light Night reveals how a festival can really galvanise a city's imaginative after-hours culture.

Artist Gavin Turk's occult new sculptures are among the after-hours attractions in the West country. Mark Sheerin explores the power of pyramids.

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 Birmingham gallery sends teenage critics on an assignment to nearby Coventry for a show about an unfinished Stanley Kubrick movie.

Find out about a pair of shoes which were handmade in Paris for a dancer during the 1920s but illustrate a design style still prevalent in swish footwear almost a century on.

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

Maurizio Anzeri creates imagined identities from found photographs and abstract embroidery as part of Diffusion, Cardiff's Biennial International Photography Festival.

Partly based on the Red-crowned Crane which became a symbol of hope in an area of Northern Japan, an artist duo have made a series of large-scale, beautiful installations at Otley's Barn Gallery.

A mid-career survey for the German artist tackles poverty, shame, religion and faith with a light touch. Mark Sheerin takes a look.

With Mariele Neudecker at the Regency Townhouse and four satellite works around town, HOUSE 2013 could be the best yet.

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.

Marc Wilson's project to photograph World War II defences has resulted in a thought-provoking series of ethereal "documentary landscapes" at Fort Nelson.

The suburban artist accounts for his performance photos selected for the Saatchi Gallery's current survey of contemporary art in the UK.

Curators at current exhibition Couriers of Taste, at Danson House in Bexleyheath, have received a ten-pound sack of seeds, collected by an avid Ai Weiwei fan at one of his previous exhibitions in New York.

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

Watershed is inviting applications in a search for a magician, artist, illusionist or designer to take part in a two-month project at the Bristol venue.

Four lithographs by surrealist Joan Miró are among a set of artworks worth more than £4 million going on display in Cardiff as part of a gift from collectors Eric and Jean Cass.

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.

David Shrigley, Laure Prouvost, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Tino Sehgal are the four artists who will compete for this year's Turner Prize.

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.