Innovative contemporary artist Conrad Shawcross completes his residency at the Science museum with a series of works dotted throughout the Mathematics gallery.
One of the Wellcome Collection's most hotly anticipated exhibitions since the institution opened: Brains - the Mind as Matter explores not so much what the brain does as what we have done to it. So the...
As cultural institutions across London make ever more spurious links between the 2012 Olympics and the event or exhibition that they were planning to programme anyway, the Wellcome Collection is actually...
An exhibition of drawings. sculpture and recently discovered psychoanalytic writings by Louise Bourgeois at the Freud Museum this spring and summer. Until her death in 2010, Bourgeois was the grand old...
Another YBA in thrall to the works of Francis Bacon. Mat Collishaw presents the Uk premiere of The End of Innocence - a series of manipulates video works based on Bacon's reimaginings of Velazquez's Pope...
To accompany the major survey exhibition of the career of Damien Hirst, Tate Modern is giving over its Turbine Hall to show the artist's much publicised diamond-covered skull, For the Love of God. Until...
Two simultaneous exhibitions at matt's Gallery this April and May. There's Willie Doherty's black and white photographs from the 1980s and '90s alongside the latest episode in Nathaniel Mellors' absurdist...
As part of his latest exhibition at Hay Hill Gallery, artist Jamie McCartney presents a large-scale wall sculpture entitled, charmingly enough, The Great Wall of Vagina - which consists of a an entire...
A new series of interventions shed new light on some of the Science Museum's more esoteric objects - from a parade of pylons to a malfunctioning toaster. Until 28.09.12.
An exhibition charting the history of electronic music from the initial experiments of the 1950s right through to today's widespread use of digital music. Highlights include the first ever portable synth...
An exhibition dedicated to exploring those elements of everyday design that so often go unnoticed. Hidden Heroes explores the histories behind 36 different objects - like light bulbs, bar codes, and paper...
A major digital installation showcasing a virtual version of the Philharmonica Orchestra playing Gustav Holst's The Planets on giant, interactive screens. Until 08.07.12.
An exhibition exploring the last Antarctic expedition made by Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1910-13. In order to celebrate the expedition's centenary, on show is a whole host of artefacts and scientific...
The V&A's major exhibition of 2012-13 consists of a exploration of the concept of glamour - through a series of more than 60 ballgowns from the 1950s right up to the present day. Expect designs by the...
The V&A plays host to the world's largest pieces of cloth made from spider silk. Amazingly beautiful, but possibly not one for any arachnophobes out there. Until 05.06.12.
As part of their British Design Season the V&A hosts a display dedicated to 30 British artists, architects and designers who have produced recent work for theatre or other performance events. Until 30...