Art:... And Beyond

1

Bridget Riley Abott Hall Gallery, Kendal

A retrospective that spans Riley's career as top British abstractionist, from rippling monochromes to colour, stripes and diagonals. To 3 Jan

2

Thinking Aloud Kettles Yard, Cambridge

Sculptor Richard Wentworth explores creative improvisation in art, design and everyday life with an assortment of temporary solutions. To 3 Jan

3

Edward Burne-Jones Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Centenary exhibition gathers together favourites illustrating Burne-Jones's romantic and mediaevalist nether world. To 7 Jan

4

Helen Chadwick Ferens Gallery, Hull

Body-work by influential UK artist - the first overview since her death mid-career in 996. Lush light-boxes of fruit, flowers and fluids and her last series, Unnatural Selection, showcasing IVF embryos. To 7 Jan

5

Gustav Metzger MOMA Oxford

A look at Metzger's role as artist, theorist and author of the Auto-destructive Art Manifesto (959)

- including a restaging of his liquid-crystal light projections. To 0 Jan