Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) History Month, the Schools Out initiative to help fight homophobic bullying that had its pre-launch at the British Museum last November, is back this month for the 6th year. This means that throughout February, a varied selection of (mostly) free events (over 200 of …
The Foundling Museum, London WC1, until 9 May
The three artists chosen to collaborate at the Foundling Museum on the site of the original Foundling Hospital on London’s Coram’s Fields are, appropriately enough, a dysfunctional kind of family. Mat Collishaw and Tracey Emin and Paula Rego have history. Rego taught Emin …
Negotiable Values, Manchester
Manchester’s Chinese Arts Centre continues to highlight the speedy changes taking place in China – as well as increasing interchanges between Chinese and western artistic cultures – with an exhibition of works that question the concept of progress. Wang Jun’s installations hint at moments of social alienation; Zheng …
With their sly parodies of corporate branding and mass-produced design, Darbyshire’s installations expose the hollow realities behind urban regeneration
What does New Labour’s Britain look like? In the work of Matthew Darbyshire, the outgoing party’s legacy is revealed to be a world of shifting surfaces, all daubed in a CMYK palette …