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'Art Britannia' explores contemporary practice from UK with an emphasis on painting and craft. The exhibition features a 'mini show within a show', taken directly from The Lion and Lamb Gallery's 'Summer Saloon' exhibition. The Lion and Lamb is an artists run space, located in the back of an East End pub.

British art has always had a distinctive quality perhaps stemming from the mix of post-Empire eclecticism with a touch of eccentricity.

'Art Britannia' explores contemporary practice from UK with an emphasis on painting and craft. The exhibition features a 'mini show within a show', taken directly from The Lion and Lamb Gallery's 'Summer Saloon' exhibition. The Lion and Lamb is an artists run space, located in the back of an East End pub.

British art has always had a distinctive quality perhaps stemming from the mix of post-Empire eclecticism with a touch of eccentricity.

Under the title ART, TWO POINTS. Barcelona lives contemporary art, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and the Obra Social 'la Caixa' (“la Caixa” Welfare Projects) present the first exhibition jointly organised and displayed at the same time in both headquarters. For the first time in Barcelona, the high quality of one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the South of Europe, bringing together more than 6,000 works, is presented. The merging of these collections has made it possible to create a new account that questions our recent past and places us in a better position to understand contemporariness. Art, dos punts is a broad selection of the collections of both institutions that explores the concept of modernity and its relationship with the avant-garde within the context of our history. The exhibition links MACBA's galleries, where the different episodes of the modern era in Barcelona are revisited from the point of view of contemporary art, with those of CaixaForum, where the interests of the post-modern generation are echoed. In a new global context, the visitor experiences the fragility and disenchantment resulting from the loss of the utopias that fought for freedom, as it appears in the art works of the 1980s and 1990s. Art, dos punts gathers 400 works by 125 artists such as Ignasi Aballí, John Bock, Joseph Beuys, Joan Brossa, Eduardo Chillida, Christo, Tony Cragg, Pep Duran, Öyvind Fahlström, Lucio Fontana, Richard Hamilton, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Paul Klee, Jannis Kounellis, Muntadas, Juan Muñoz, Gerhard Richter, Martha Rosler, Dieter Roth and Jeff Wall, among others.

artnet Auctions is proud to feature Street Life: A Sale of Graffiti and Street Art, an auction of over 40 works by artists such as JA, CES, Banksy, COPE 2, Toxic, Trike 1, Jean-Michel Basquiat, CRASH, FAILE, Futura 2000, Keith Haring, Mr. Brainwash, Ryan McGinness, Ronnie Cutrone, Shepard Fairey, Judith Supine, KAWS, Saber, and SEEN. The works in the sale have estimates ranging from US$2,000 to 50,000.

Hauser & Wirth presents Dieter Roth Björn Roth in New York, 18th Street, 23 January - 13 April 2013.

Sculptor, painter, printmaker, collagist, poet, diarist, graphic designer, publisher, filmmaker and musician, German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth (1930-1998) has been described as "a performance artist in all the mediums he touched." Everything Roth made involved the acting out a central concept of art and life as utterly indivisible - a single enterprise in which material stuff is subservient to the emotional and sensual experience for which it stands. Roth was not an artist who tolerated boundaries. In seeking to pulverize them, he elevated the processes by which things happen, embracing accidents, mutations, and accretions of detail over time; inviting nature to have its way with unstable mediums, including fruit, chocolate, and sugar; and perhaps most boldly, inviting the dilution of his own authorship through constant, intensive collaboration with other artists. Those partners included such significant figures as Richard Hamilton, Emmett Williams, Arnulf Rainer, and Hermann Nitsch. But it was Roth's long and symbiotic collaboration with his own son, artist Bjorn Roth, that stands as testament to the enormous and enduring potency of his restless, relentless process.