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Eric Rimmington Scolar Fine Art, 35 Bruton Place, London W1, until 28 November It's a strange irony of the throwaway society that objets trouves--'found objects'--should now be treasured as art. [...]

Evelyn Williams: Recent Paintings Agnew's, 43 Old Bond Street, London, WI, until 17 October For a culture so cushioned from the reality of death, we make an awful lot of [...]

Three Painters of the Sea: Monet, Schueler and Nicholson Edinbugh Festival The skreel of the pipes may be just the thing to fire the blood for battle, but when the [...]

Flower Power Millennium Galleries, Sheffield until 25 August Two years ago, after Michael Landy's spectacular destruction of all his worldly possessions on a conceptual bonfire of the vanities in an [...]

As art prizes go, the Jerwood Painting Prize is scrupulously even-handed: over the past nine years since its establishment, its shortlists have been models of inclusiveness. In particular, they have [...]

Richard Eurich Visionary Artist Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute until 26 April In 150 years of coexistence, painting and photography have had an ambivalent and shifting relationship. Since photography first learnt [...]

Unlike the old Co-Op building on the Newcastle bank of the Tyne, which has rebranded itself the Hotel Malmaison, Gateshead's new Centre for Contemporary Art has kept the name of […]

Among the four Tates, St Ives has always been the exception in having a local artistic connection. While this makes it special, it also creates problems for the go-ahead programmer. [...]

Arthur Rackham (Dulwich Picture Gallery, till 2 March) This year, two giants of modern British book illustration usher Dulwich Picture Gallery's programme in and out: Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) with an […]

Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War Pallant House Gallery, until 15 February 2015 The Paris World's Fair of 1937 was more than a testing ground for [...]

The Years of La Dolce Vita Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1, until 29 June Before there was Hello!, OK! and Closer, there was Oggi. Oggi was the magazine [...]

Artists make good critics, but do critics make good artists? It's hard to tell, when most are too chicken to try. For over 20 years, Spectator critic Andrew Lambirth has [...]

Winifred Nicholson: Unseen Works on Paper (Crane Kalman Gallery, 178 Brompton Road, SW3, till 11 January) In our brand-obsessed era, artists who don't belong to movements tend to slip through [...]

Anthony Whishaw--Maverick Images: shaped, triptychal and rectangular (Art First, till 7 November) Ling about on the surface of Anthony Whishaw's Bethnal Green studio during his open day last month were [...]

When the National Gallery ran its eye-tracking experiment last year into how we look at pictures, the works selected for the test were all oil paintings. Had they been watercolours, [...]

Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting (National Gallery, till 8 September) When John Galliano called haute couture `a workshop for dreams', he wasn't the first to draw a [...]

For lovers of painting, the big disappointment of the Royal Academy's blockbuster Paris: Capital of the Arts 1900-68 is the sorry sight, two thirds of the way through the show, [...]

Transition: The London Art Scene in the Fifties (Barbican Gallery, till 14 April) Periods of austerity tend to be nostalgic only for those who haven't lived through them: if you [...]

Exhibitions 1 Sandra Blow (Tate St. Ives, till 10 March) Back to Basics In modern life progress is only made by slamming doors on the immediate past, so it's natural, [...]

The pomp and circumstance of the City of London are not normally associated with Mediterranean colour, exotic fruit and reclining nudes in the afternoon, so it's a surprise to discover [...]

When Burne-Jones was forced to withdraw his Phyllis and Demophoon from the Old Water-Colour Society exhibition in 1870 because of complaints about its hero's nudity, he resigned from the society [...]

Julian Trevelyan: Picture Language Bohun Gallery, Henley, until 1 June Between 1917 and 1923, Julian Trevelyan produced a map and an illustrated guide to Hurtenham, an industrial town on the [...]

There were two Joan Eardleys, according to a new biography of the Scottish painter by Christopher Andreae. There was 'the tender and gentle Joan', as revealed by her bosom friend [...]

Bruno Munari: My Futurist Past Estorick Collection, until 23 December In 1929 the founder of Italian Futurism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, reported from Milan that, after a wartime setback, the movement [...]

Sven Berlin (1911-1999)--A Centenary Celebration St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington, until 19 November In 1982 Sven Berlin placed a sealed wallet labelled 'Testament' on top of a rafter [...]

Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels by Elizabeth Fritsch National Museum Cardiff, until 2 January 2011 'Museum decides against building new extension' is not the stuff of newspaper headlines, so most of [...]

Rogier van der Weyden 1400-1464: Master of Passions Museum Leuven, until 6 December Musée Hergé Louvain-la-Neuve When I was a child in Belgium, architecture was a dirty word--angry drivers would [...]

Caption: In unsettled times, it's nice to find artistic continuity. For his first major show of works on canvas for 40 years, veteran Pop artist Gerald Laing has returned to [...]

Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Painters' Hall, until 1 December Art competitions suffer from a basic problem: how to apply a first-past-the-post system designed for racing to art. In some cases, contestants […]

Sir: In his letter disputing Paul Barker's account of the London Library's recent AGM (17 November), Richard Davenport-Hines repeats the slur he made at the meeting, that members who object […]

Caption: Water falling, rippling, bubbling, breaking on rocks or trapping layers of light in its depths is the focus of Christian Wharton's exhibition at Cattura Fine Art, Harlequin Centre, Exeter […]

The Art of White The Lowry, until 17 April There's a central chapter in Moby Dick where the narrator Ishmael traces his fascination with the whale to the colour white. [...]

For those of us who prefer the American dream at second-hand, Danny Markey's new exhibition Desert Places (at the Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork Street, London W1, until 22 October) is [...]

Caption: Sargy Mann returns to Cadogan Contemporary, 108 Draycott Avenue, SW3 (until 6 May), with two years' worth of landscapes, seascapes, figures and--for the first time in a long while--interiors. [...]

Caption: Is there still life in still-life? Plenty, proves New Zealand-born artist Susan Wilson in her first major solo show at Browse & Darby, 19 Cork Street, W1 (until 24 [...]

Boudin, Monet and the Sea Painters of Normandy Bowes Museum, until 30 August 'A very impressive pile of stones,' is how the driver of my taxi from Darlington Station described [...]

Fred Williams--An Australian Vision: Etchinqs, Drawings and Gouaches British Museum, until 25 April 'One way of disliking Australian art,' wrote the young Robert Hughes in his introduction to the 1961 [...]

One of the surprises of the RA's current show of illuminated manuscripts (reviewed on page 60) is a little sheet of 14 portrait heads vividly drawn in ink and white [...]

When the English talents for watercolour and eccentricity come together, as in the work of Leonard Rosoman, RA, the results can be magic. Rosoman celebrates his 90th birthday with a [...]

Wrecks, hulks and dilapidated buildings are the inspiration for Leonard Bennetts's new exhibition at New Zealand House, 80 Haymarket, London SW1 (until 18 October). An abstract painter who returned to [...]

The Impossible View? The Lowry, until 11 January. The Sunday painter can sit in a beauty spot and paint the view 'as we have learned to see it in the [...]

Painting Light: Italian Divisionism 1885-1910 Estorick Collection, until 7 September Italian light has inspired more painters than any other. For four centuries after Piero della Francesca first captured its luminosity [...]

Thomas Jones (1742-1803): An Artist Rediscovered In his memoirs, the Welsh painter Thomas Jones (742-1803) attributes the premature death of his fellow artist Nicholas Dall to 'Discontent & despair from [...]

Breon O'Casey at 75 Berkeley Square Gallery until 17 May 'I'll tell you what influences my art. Every bloody thing that happens to me and that I see from the [...]

Richard Parker Bonington: Young and Romantic (Nottingham Castle, till 2 February) `It is not right in a young man to assume great dash--great completion--without study or pains,' complained Constable in [...]

Caption: The west of Ireland is the inspiration for Barbara Rae's latest exhibition, Paintings from Ireland (at Art First, 9 Cork Street, London W1 until 13 June). Wintering in Ballycastle [...]

Recently, trains through London have become more interesting. As they chunter slowly round the back of things, opening up vistas unseen from the front, I find myself turning to look [...]