8 April – 9 May
Ron Arad: New Works
Timothy Taylor Gallery, W1
This marks the first show at the gallery since it announced sole representation of Arad in the UK. Grouped around a freestanding star of interconnected walls designed by Arad, the show will unveil a number of experimental pieces, many on display for the first time.
7 April, 7:30pm
Corb and Intimate Space
RIBA, W1
Join Blueprint editor Vicky Richardson on a tour of Le Corbusier’s summer house, recreated at 1:1 as part of the RIBA’s 175th anniversary celebrations. Richardson will talk abut how the Cabanon, along with Corb’s furniture and interiors give a unique and personal insight into the Swiss architect’s ideologies and design aspirations.
9 April – 6 September
State of The Art: New York
Urbis, Manchester
Some of the Big Apple’s best new art is represented here with work by 16 artists, including four new commissions. The show features painting, performance, video and installation. Political satire is also represented, with highlights being an autobiographical installation fusing rock ballads, video, sculpture and drawing by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, and an animated pastiche of the recent US election by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
10 April – 31 August 2009
Tobias Putrih & MOS
Overhang
BALTIC, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
A collaborative project with American architect and design company MOS, this is New York-based artist Tobias Putrih’s first ever exhibition in the UK. Inspired by the structural rules of equilibrium and ‘maximum overhang stacking’, the Slovenian-born artist piles up Styrofoam blocks to the brink of unbalance, keeping the structure steady as it threatens to fall. The result is a lightweight installation that appears to be continually on the verge of total collaps
