BEXHILL-ON-SEA EXHIBITION
Otto Dix  
Der Krieg (The War)
De La Warr Pavilion
Marina
May 17–July 27

Commemorating the centenary of WWI, this selection of 19 prints by Otto Dix is taken from his monumental 50-piece series, Der Krieg (The War). Widely acknowledged as ground-breaking, with their stark depictions of Dix’s traumatic war experiences and the innovative multiple print-making techniques he employed, Der Krieg presents the first world war in shocking close-up and depicts the transportation of wounded soldiers, the return of battle-weary troops from the front line and the suffering of civilians. The images, modelled on Francisco Goya’s famous series of etchings The Disasters Of War, are harshly critical of a decadent German society between the two world wars.
www.dlwp.com
 
LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION
Mondrian And His Studios/Nasreen Mohamedi
Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock
June 6-October 5

Both these exhibitions are part of Tate Liverpool’s Abstraction Into The World season which explores themes of modernity, abstraction and architecture. Marking the 70th anniversary of his death, Mondrian And His Studios explores the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s practice and considers the relationship between his artworks and the space around them. Nasreen Mohamedi — considered by some as one of the most significant modernist artists — explores how, like her Dutch counterpart, she has moved away from the figurative to the abstract.
www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
 
HAY-ON-WYE MUSIC
A Concert For Tony Benn: The Writing On The Wall
Hay Festival
The Telegraph Stage
May 23

This tribute to the politician, diarist and orator recreates one of his legendary Hay evenings with an anthology of great songs and speeches of dissent and protest. With a line-up of Roy Bailey, Billy Bragg and friends this is the unmissable event at this year’s Hay Festival. Audience members are asked to bring a book donation for the Parc Prison in Bridgend.
www.hayfestival.com

LEEDS EXHIBITION
D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth And Form
Henry Moore Institute
The Headrow
Until August 17

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s book On Growth And Form, a poetic and mathematical study of scale, gravity, order and process, was one which lodged itself within the consciousness of 20th-century sculpture and influenced artists as diverse as Henry Moore and Richard Hamilton. This exhibition presents a selection of Thompson’s teaching aids and includes intricate glass models of jellyfish and a series of brightly coloured plaster models of the growth of a primitive vertebrate, along with soap bubbles, eggs, elephant skulls and narwhal horns. Included too are “transformation” drawings made by Henry Moore in the 1930s which show the influence of Thompson on Moore’s sculptural thinking.
www.henry-moore.org