"The iconic NASA spacesuit didn't show up in astronauts' closets fully formed. Here, a small sampling of the many precursors held with reverence at the Smithsonian Museum." Images from 'Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection' by Amanda Young and Mark Avino.

"Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964 opens tomorrow at the de Young. Although the primary subject of the exhibition is the city we call home, many of the locations represented in the pictures were difficult to pin point. During his preparations for the exhibition, curator James Ganz tried to track down some of the more mysterious sites portrayed, which resulted in a San Francisco adventure of his own." Closes 3 June 2012.

"while some of his work hangs right here—inside the narrow room, up on the building and off into the night—his three most significant pieces are hanging under an overpass just a short walk up the street. Like billboards. Only different."

'"Walker Evans," the exhibition at Stanford's Cantor Center showcasing the photographer-artist who plumbed the poetics of documentary, makes this point only inadvertently. Consisting of vintage prints and related Walker ephemera from the collection of Elizabeth and Robert Fisher, it succeeds at least in making us wish for a refreshed view of Evans' work, even if that continues to elude us.' Stanford, closes 8 April, 2012.

"From 1970 to 1987 Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs, the vast majority of which were never seen by the public. These images often served as the basis for his commissioned portraits, silk-screen paintings, drawings, and prints." Berkeley. Closes 20 May, 2012.

"Seeing so many photographs of Woodman, mostly naked, often posing in empty rooms with peeling paint and fading wallpaper, is a slightly disconcerting experience, though. It's not just that she becomes more elusive the more photographs you see, it's more the tightrope walk she takes between an almost adolescent self-obsession and artistic self-exploration."

"artist and designer George Maciunas conceived of Fluxus Editions—affordable and portable publications and multiples meant to introduce revolutionary art into everyday experience and to publicize the group’s ideas on an international scale." Closes 15 January 2012.

"The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, the foundational document that established Manhattan’s famous street grid." Closes 15 April, 2012.

Pacific Standard Time: "The exhibition charts the abundant artistic innovation in post-World War II Los Angeles. During this period, Los Angeles artists looked for new approaches, subjects, and techniques for art making, including experimenting with the materials and processes of the pioneering industries in the region and the local surf and car cultures." Closes 5 February, 2012.

"Glamour of the Gods is a celebration of Hollywood portraiture from the industry's 'Golden Age', the period 1920 to 1960." Closes 23rd October 2011.

"What does postmodernism mean, and where did it come from? The V&A will explore these questions in the exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990." Opens 24th September, closes 15th January 2012. Also at the V&A: Power of Making, closes 2nd January 2012.

A review of Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century at the Royal Academy and Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978- 2010 at the Whitechapel Gallery. Both look interesting, although Campbell definitely prefers the former: "As photography moves into the museums of modern art it loses some of the sprightliness and poetry that the Hungarians brilliantly exemplified." (Subscriber only.)

"One of the main exhibits at the Center, “Mapping the Cityscape”, features a dozen or so wall-mounted 8-foot-high maps of Manhattan — different representations and views from 1609 to the present." Center for Architecture, closes 27th August.

"The London Street Photography Festival is proud to host the first UK exhibition of the most talked about photography phenomenon in recent months: Vivian Maier. Forty-eight framed prints will be exhibited, both black and white and colour, alongside a selection of her fascinating silent films." I considered going to Chicago in February for this, so if you're near London going to King's Cross would seem to be worth it. Closes 24th July.

"Joel Grey/A New York Life examines the enduring impact that performer and photographer Joel Grey and his adopted city have made on each other. Through rare artifacts from his stage and screen career, objects from his personal collection, and his own photography, the exhibition offers a unique look at New York through Grey’s eyes."

If I were any closer to Berlin than I am, I would be making an effort to visit the city just for this. As it is, this is somewhere between a recommendation and a lamentation. Ah well.

"Discovered in 2008 by Michael Hoppen, 28 year old Nishino’s extraordinary photographic dioramas, monumental in size, map out the artist’s personal impressions of the  world’s major cities in several thousand intimate details." If you're in London, go and see this.

While I'm listing exhibitions in London that I can't go to, in the hope some of my friends will, this roundup of the work of the Isotype group was one of the highlights of my visit to MAK in Vienna last summer. It's small, but worth a look, particularly for the book covers by Marie Neurath.<br />
Closes 13 March 2011.

"Nextdoor, in two upper rooms, is the reason you'll probably want to visit soon. The museum is hosting a special exhibition devoted to Harry Beck, designer of the world-famous tube map, who was born down the road in Finchley." You'll also need to visit soon, because Barnet Council want to  close the entire museum. 

The combination of this, another new media exhibition, and a Robert Mapplethorpe photography show are enough to tempt me down to the edge of the South Bay this weekend, I suspect.<br />
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Closes 6th February 2011.

"Wear comfortable clothes and flat shoes to visit Move: Choreographing You at the Hayward, because to experience this exhibition properly, you will be swinging, crawling and balancing your way through the galleries." Sounds interesting, and very Hayward.

A review of the Design Research Unit exhibition at the Cubitt Gallery, London. Sounds small (it doesn't look like it covers the Victoria line design work, which I've lamented before is woefully underdocumented) but also interesting, if you can get to it. As with the Guardian article, check out the accompanying photography.

The V&A doesn't have a page for this, so: "A display about the work of Charles Holden and his architectural practice Adams, Holden and Pearson, focusing on the designs they produced for London Transport. Featured are designs for stations created for the Northern line extension during the 1920s and the refurbishment of Piccadilly Circus station, London Underground's headquarters at 55 Broadway and the iconic, Art Deco stations Holden created for the Piccadilly line extension."

"The essence of photography lies in its seemingly magical ability to fix shadows on light-sensitive surfaces. Normally, this requires a camera. Shadow Catchers, however, presents the work of five international contemporary artists - Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller and Adam Fuss - who work without a camera. Instead, they create images on photographic paper by casting shadows and manipulating light, or by chemically treating the surface of the paper." This is the sort of thing London does that I'll miss.

"Sombre photographs by Jon Savage and Homer Sykes show entire neighbourhoods of London that stood empty due to speculation, but also document the development of growing protest movements that generated new forms of solidarity. In addition to the squatting movement, the exhibition looks at the gay movement, feminism, industrial disputes and solidarity with international liberation struggles."

"Critical Mass, one of Gormley's best known works, is an installation made up of 60 life-size cast iron body forms which will be displayed on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion." Ends "August 2010", and I'd like to see the building anyway.

"Come and marvel at the mechanical penguins and jellyfish as they swim through the auditorium of Royal Festival Hall." July 4th, morning only. Part of a season of science events at the South Bank Centre: see also Homo Computers, Brian Greene and Marcus du Sautoy talks, Flood Tide, and Science of the City walks.

"Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects." Closes 3 October, 2010.

"In this exhibition the artists locate and challenge the logic, the status, and the nature of data, information, and knowledge." "They find new and unique languages to articulate visually and poetically how such systems and networks of data/information/knowledge that constitute and are constituted by metadata might be brought to light, questioned, and, perhaps most pressingly, how they might be disrupted." I'm not sure if this'll be wanky, interesting, or both, but it's probably worth a visit.

'"To scare people I think, yes," he said. "That's important." The artist was in London for a major new exhibition at the White Cube gallery of what has been three years in the making.'

"The big city through the eyes of Britain’s leading graphic artists. View and buy the work on this website or visit our pop-up gallery, 7 Marshall Street, London W1 7EH." Closes 3 July, 2010.

"Parasol unit is delighted to present the first solo exhibition in London devoted to the work of the Japanese artist Tabaimo." Again, might be worth a look. Closes 6 August, 2010.

From the page at the Kemistry Gallery's site: "For South Korean design studio Zero Per Zero’s first exhibition in the UK, Kemistry Gallery presents new versions of their well-known City Railway System series, including LED display panels, hand-drawn maps, paintings, and acrylic pieces."

"Maps can be works of art, propaganda pieces, expressions of local pride, tools of indoctrination… Magnificent Maps brings together 80 of the largest, most impressive and beautiful maps ever made, from 200 AD to the present day." (Meta note: it's interesting how often this is tagged britishmuseum.)

"Whose Map Is It? is a map art exhibition taking place at Rivington Place in London from June 2 to July 24, 2010. It features work from nine contemporary artists who 'question the underlying structures and hierarchies that inform traditional mapmaking. They provide individual insights that inscribe new, often omitted perspectives onto the map.'"

The New York Times reviews the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art's 75th anniversary exhibition. I'd certainly recommend it.

Subtitled "A psychologist challenges the Beck gospel of Underground octolinearity", this is a short introduction by Maxwell Roberts in Eye magazine to the ideas he explored in his underground maps exhibition in Southend. (Must do something about getting that to London...)

Subtitled "A psychologist challenges the Beck gospel of Underground octolinearity", this is a short introduction by Maxwell Roberts in Eye magazine to the ideas he explored in his underground maps exhibition in Southend. (Must do something about getting that to London...)

I half-remember bookmarking this when it was on in Paris (at Musée de l’Elysée) but I didn't see it there. Now it's on in Vienna.

'Gagosian Gallery London will present "Crash," a major group exhibition opening on 11 February 2010, which takes its title from the famous novel by JG Ballard.'

"A new exhibition of poster designs that explores how leading artists and designers helped the Post Office to develop its public image in the mid-20th century. Designs on Delivery, an exhibition by the British Postal Museum and Archive, is at Well Gallery, London College of Communication, from 7 October until 4 November 2009"

A review of an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier-Bresson, Paris, of the work of this early 20th century German photographer. Sounds like it'd be worth a look if I was in Paris (although I'm not sure it's worth hanging a trip around).

"Part of Barbican Art Gallery’s current exhibition Radical Nature – Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009, the experimental architectural collective EXYZT has created The Dalston Mill, turning a disused railway line and waste ground in Dalston into a vibrant rural retreat for the people of the area and beyond." 15 July 2009 - 6 August 2009.

"EXYZT are putting the finishing touches to their latest London project, The Dalston Mill, an off-site extension of the Barbican's Radical Nature exhibition."

An interesting article about an exhibition in Paris on the ethics of photographing people.

"Images of Otsuka as an adult are craftily combined with snaps of the artist as a child, pinched from the family photo album. The resultant composite snapshots are both glaringly literal and astoundingly subtle" The show's near Baker Street.

Jeff Noon's story to accompany Dominique Gonzales-Foerster's piece in Tate Modern, TH2058. Indirectly via Dan Hon, who notes there's an entire story-writing competition.

Jonathan Glancey: "In an age in which even the Mini is a big car – have you ever seen one parked next to an original, Issigonis-designed Mini? – and every new car is much faster than anyone ever needs it to be, how many of the world's rapidly growing band of motorists will be all that interested in Ban and Hara's bonsai cars?"

"British artist Roger Hiorns makes exceptional use of unlikely materials: detergent, disinfectant, perfume, fire and copper sulphate crystals." Really must make an effort to get there from work one (long) lunchtime.

A good roundup of links and photographs from an exhibiton on the Thames Estuary. I should try and make it there, even if Southwark's not that easy to get to for me these days.

I keep trying to get to this and being foiled by early closing or helping with exam revision, but one day, ONE DAY I'll manage it.

"At the instigation of Dr Helen Megaw, a leading Cambridge scientist, diagrams of atomic structures inspired an eclectic array of patterns" "reunited en masse for the first time since the Festival" Also free.

"Together they reveal a fascinating ‘lost world’ of British design and invention – a glimpse of a time when the TV in the corner was a Murphy, not a Sony" Sounds like it's worth a visit. Helpfully free.

Waldemar Januszczak in fine grumpy form on the War Museum's Bond show, although he takes a while to warm up. I don't entirely agree with his conclusion, but I'm rarely bothered about many of the for-pay exhibitions.

I was trying to remember the name of the exhbition of this at the Barbican in 2004, and shockingly it turned out to be quite easy to find: "Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties".

Exhibition and talk series at the New London Architecture centre off Tottenham Court Road. I wonder if I can be bothered to get up early enough to go to the Crossrail talk?

New exhibiton subtitled "The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900 - 1937". Could be worth popping in to, what with it being free and everything. Late opening on Tuesdays.

Evening Standard: "A major exhibition is launched today to help decide the future of the historic Smithfield Market buildings prior to the opening of a planning inquiry next month." Includes a nice photo of the Poultry Market roof, amongst others.

"we're turning the West End into a giant gallery by lining the streets of Soho, Piccadilly, and Covent Garden with some of the world's most famous paintings" A more refined attempt at street art, if you like.

New at the British Library, as plugged on Today this morning (private view for a bunch of cabbies). Watch out for the WMV on the home page though.

"London can be a wonderful city to explore on foot, but there are many barriers to getting people to walk more regularly whether for leisure, commuting, shopping or health" apparently 45% of people navigate by Tube map- clearly suboptimal

"the Hayward Gallery presents an exhibition drawn from the Collection, showing the enormous diversity and quality of British art over six decades"

Part of the London Architecture Biennale, including Foster introducing a film about the making of 30 St Mary Axe