ICA, London 17 February - 18 April 2010 The ICA is proud to present a major solo exhibition by artist, musician and writer Billy Childish. The artist was born in 1959 in Chatham in Kent, where he still lives, and his prodigious range of activities can best be understood as a total work of art – one which centres on his own extraordinary persona.

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PULSE New York 2010 March 4 - March 7, 2010 Having entered its fifth season with a successful and critically-acclaimed run in Miami last December, PULSE New York 2010 will host over 50 exhibitors from around the world, including thirteen solo exhibitions of emerging artists in the IMPULSE section of the fair.

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Blanton Museum of Art February 5 – April 25, 2010 This spring the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin investigates the notion of desire in an exhibition of the same name. Desire features over fifty works from an international selection of contemporary artists working in a wide range of media.

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Bonniers Konsthall 27 January – 4 April 2010 The first exhibition of the spring at Bonniers Konsthall is devoted to film. In the course of ten weeks, five works receive their Swedish premieres in the film programme Projections. The exhibition format enables the presentation of the wide range of moving images in today's contemporary art, spanning everything from a cinematic dream in eight minutes to an hour of a classic documentary.

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Project Arts Centre 12 February – 10 April 2010 …at that point my colleagues and I began experiencing the first of several extreme onsets. None of us spoke at the time but discussion afterwards revealed that each of us present in the room were somehow quietly convinced that we were entering a higher level of consciousness… - participant of one of the first Aion Experiments (Aion 01B) 1943.

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WIELS 19 February – 25 April 2010 With the eye of an amateur detective-historian, and working with an intensity and slowness that is rare among artists of his generation, Dutch artist Melvin Moti (b. 1977) gives form to obscure anecdotes, incidents, and individuals—"black holes" that, as he says, "haven't been contextualized by official historiography."

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Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw 12 February – 5 April, 2010 The newly established Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw strives to conduct profound research into the tradition of modernity. It acknowledges the burden of twentieth- century utopias imposed on Poland in its recent history, and finds critical readings of the project of modernity of particular relevance to its institutional mission.

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REDCAT February 14 – April 18, 2010 Organized by REDCAT Gallery Director and Curator Clara Kim and Doryun Chong, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, this exhibition brings together the work of Seoul-based Korean artist Park Chan-Kyong and Tokyo/Kiev-based American artist Sean Snyder. The two artists first met in Germany in 2002, and their shared interest in North Korea and the politics of the Cold War led to this initial encounter and becomes the impetus for this two-person exhibition titled Brinkmanship.

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art forum berlin 2010 This year, art forum berlin will take place from Thursday, October 7 to Sunday, October 10 (Opening: Wednesday, October 6) and thus ideally starts the autumn season of the art fairs.

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The Exhibitionist The Exhibitionist, a new journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns - encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating. It is published by ARCHIVE BOOKS and will be distributed internationally, selling at major and specialty bookstores and newsstands.

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EFA Project Space Wednesday, February 10, 6:30- 8 pm 'Parafacts and Parafictions: Helguera, and Blachly & Shaw' is an evening of performance-presentations organized in conjunction with the exhibition Companion, curated by REV- and currently on view at EFA Project Space.

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Creative Link for the Arts and the New Museum have announced Hamza Walker, the Director of Education and Associate Curator at Chicago's Renaissance Society, and Polish artist Artur Zmijewski as the recipients of the Ordway Prize.

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Nottingham Contemporary 13 February – 18 April 2010 Star City revisits how the future was experienced and imagined under communism during the Cold War. It focuses on the work of many of the leading artists of the post-Communist generation of European artists. They are joined by key figures from the 1960s and 1970s avant-gardes of that region – Filko, the Kabakovs and Koller - as well as artists from the West who have made work from the geo-historical perspectives of the former ideological adversary.

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Austrian Cultural Forum New York February 4 – May 15, 2010 This exhibition understands art in a very mundane sense as a source of solace. It is committed to the mildly intoxicating character of beauty and the inebriating quality of alcohol and embraces the baser genres of still life and decoration. The show comprises two perspectives. One addresses the topic of solace in a contemplative movement revolving around objects, video, and painting.

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e-flux journal Repeated attempts to dismantle the aura of value and rarity surrounding art objects have been, for the most part, unsuccessful. Why is that? The majority of these attempts throughout the twentieth century have consisted of infiltrating the economy of care, custodianship, conservation, and considered attention granted to art objects upon entry into the art establishment. While the introduction of impostors into this ecosystem in the form of real-world doubles (such as Duchampian readymades) served to short-circuit the aura of authenticity within spaces of art, over time these impostors nevertheless began to perform the function of ritualizing a general sense of disbelief with regard to the art establishment's unpredictable and indeterminate patterns of attention to art objects.

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Tate Modern 26 - 28 February 2010 This programme surveys recent video work from Israel, examining practices that have emerged within a culture marked by the contested spaces of a militarised society and the complex emotions of life on the brink. Artists Yael Bartana, Guy Ben-Ner, and Roee Rosen will present individual focus screenings and discussions of their work.

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Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art 6 February - 11 April 2010 Glenn Brown's (Hexam, 1966) paintings derive from existing images, often of art historical significance, or sometimes appropriated from popular culture: the primary source of his art is artistic reproduction. He employs images taken from albums or from the internet, adopting imagery from the masters canonised in art history (Rembrandt, Fragonard, Dalí) as well as from lesser-known 19th century painters (John Martin or Bertalan Székely), or even from illustrators of sci-fi books (Chris Foss, Adolf Schaller or Tony Roberts).

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Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun January 22 - February 5, 2010 The international exhibition entitled The Past is a Foreign Country presents the works of artists that materialize places from memories, animate invented geographies, ask questions concerning their connection to identity and analyze the nature of remembering and forgetting.

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Whitechapel Gallery Until 11 April 2010 This winter the Whitechapel Gallery brings to life a vivid vision of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as seen through the eyes of their photographers. A dramatic epic of political and social change – as it has unfolded across two centuries – is set against the continuities of family, ancient culture and the natural environment.

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ArtSway 6 February - 28 March 2010 ArtSway is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Dave Lewis bringing together photographs and video. Dave Lewis is a photographer and filmmaker interested in identity and how people belong to a place. In making his work, Lewis attempts to act as both an ethnographer (the study of the characteristics of different people) and an artist.

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Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall February 5 - June 6, 2010
 Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is proud to present Tom Friedman's first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. Over the past year the artist has been working on a new piece, "Up in the Air", for the exhibition at Magasin 3, an enormous installation that summarizes Friedman's work and his artistic perspective on contemporary reality.

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ART COLOGNE 21 – 25 April 2010 For more than a decade the section of New Contemporaries has been the place to make unusual and exciting discoveries: young international galleries selected by the Advisory Board of ART COLOGNE (21-25 April 2010) to present between two and four selected positions from their programme.

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MADRIDFOTO 2010, International Photography Fair 12 – 16 May 2010 Scheduled for May 12th through 16th (both inclusive), the second edition of the fair is changing venues this year and moving to the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid in the city centre of Madrid. MADRIDFOTO is designed to be an exciting experience and an enjoyable way of discovering new values in contemporary photography.

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Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal February 4 - April 25, 2010 The winter season at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal kicks off with the launch of exhibitions devoted to Canadian artists Marcel Dzama, Luanne Martineau and the Montréal-based Etienne Zack, scheduled to run from February 4 to April 25, 2010.

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Gasworks 5 February – 28 March 2010 Gasworks presents the first solo exhibition in a London public gallery by Tim Etchells, bringing together two works previously unseen in the UK. Showing an attempt to translate the specialised language of art into edibles for the public, Art Flavours (2008) explores the potential and limitations of communication between different discourses and cultural frames.

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The Cultural Foundation "EKATERINA" February 3 - March 28, 2010 In early 2010, as part of the Year of Russia and France 2010, held under the auspices of both the President of the French Republic and the President of the Russian Federation, the Cultural Foundation "EKATERINA" welcomes on its premises an exhibition of a French artist Jean-Marc Bustamante.

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'de Appel Boys' School' 13 February - 28 March 2010 On the occasion of the inauguration of 'de Appel Boys' School' on the Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59 in Amsterdam, de Appel put on the group exhibition, "For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there". This group exhibition celebrates the experience of curiosity and speculation as a form of knowledge.

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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 30 January - 25 April 2010 Portscapes is a series of newly commissioned art projects focusing on the construction of Maasvlakte 2, a massive land supplementation project in the North Sea, encompassing 2000 hectares. Ten (inter)national artists (and duo's) were invited to reflect on the port, its function and its expansion throughout 2009.

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A Foundation London 18 February - 14 March 2010
 A Foundation is the London focus of a touring exhibition to Istanbul, London and Berlin 2009/10. Inspired by the celebrated Turkish writer and political figure Nazim Hikmet's book of poems Journeys With No Return, this project explores reflections of Turkish migration on contemporary art.

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ARCOmadrid_ 2010 17 – 21 February This coming Wednesday February 17th, The International Contemporary Art Fair of Madrid is opening its doors on its 29th edition, transforming the capital of Spain into a huge showcase for the art of today.

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