Listings: February 2012

My Transporter Bridge
Celebrating Teesside’s Grade 2 listed landmark bridge with prize winning public submissions on show.
> 19 February
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Centre Square, Middlesbrough, TS1 2AZ
www.visitmima.com

OMA/Progress
OMA takes over the Barbican Art Gallery with its projects and opens it up to the complex’s high walks via a previously unused entrance. In the sculpture court, a 1:1 footprint of the Maggie’s Centre at Gartnavel in Glasgow is one reminder of OMA’s UK presence.
> 19 February
Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
www.barbican.org.uk

Terence Conran
Designer and entrepreneur Conran has reached 80 – Habitat founder, now M&S headliner but with many strings to his designer bow, not least an architecture practice. Objects and process and the perfect place to see it thanks to his connections with the Design Museum.
> To 4 March
Design Museum, Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
www.designmuseum.com

The Near and the Elsewhere
The daily battle of metropolitan living in a time of global downturn. Artists Francis Alÿs, James Casebere, Rachel Whiteread and others on themes of wastage and waste, built and unbuilt.
> To 17 March
PM Gallery and Pitzhanger Manor
Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, Ealing, London W5 5EQ
www.ealing.gov.uk/pmgalleryandhouse

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The Art of Architecture
A series of exhibitions including a specially commissioned 3D painting by Will Alsop within his own building; video work from John Wood and Paul Harrison; and Andy Day’s photographs of parkour – urban acrobatics – in London, France, Nicaragua and India.
> 27 January to
20 May
The Public, New Street, West Bromwich, B70 7PG
www.thepublic.com

DON’T MISS

Andrea Zittel: Lay of my land
Zittel’s experiments with minimal living in the Mojave Desert of the US come to Gateshead. Architecture, needlework and cooking are set against a large-scale sculpture of the desert landscape designed for the exhibition.
> 10 February to 20 May
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
www.balticmill.com

From garden city to Green city
Global green schemes: William Morris imagined the city taken over by nature, Ebenezer Howard sought to make new garden cities, in São Paulo young practice Triptyque mists its walls to water the plants. 
> To 1 April
The Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7LB
www.gardenmuseum.org

Albertopolis
Prince Albert put the profits of the 1851 Great Exhibition into land for the development of London’s Exhibition Road and its institutions from Imperial College and the Royal Albert Hall to the Victoria and Albert Museum itself. Mapped in drawings and plans.
> To 29 April
Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7
www.vam.ac.uk

A Place to call Home
Tradition, taste and the ideals and aspirations are all explored in this look at homes from Georgian times to today. Guest curated by
TV’s Sarah Beeny with plenty of interesting events alongside.
> 16 February to 17 April
RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD
www.architecture.com

The first moderns
Opening exhibition on Art Nouveau in Foster’s newly reworked gallery. Glittering jewellery, furniture and glass showing how an interest in nature influenced art and design at the turn of the 19th century.
> 4 February to 1 July
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts,
University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ
www.scva.ac.uk