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Visual Arts In The Midlands

Compton Verney, Warwickshire

PORTRAIT MINIATURES: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE GRANTCHESTER COLLECTION Showcasing over 40 miniatures from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, many of which will be shown in public from the first time, until Sun 31 Dec

TUDOR MYSTERY: A MASTER PAINTER

REVEALED The world’s first exhibition devoted to an important, talented and largely forgotten painter known as the Master of the Countess of Warwick, Sat 4 Feb - Sun 7 May

MAKING MISCHIEF: FOLK COSTUME IN BRITAIN A celebration of grassroots traditions that challenge preconceptions about folk customs being fixed and nostalgic, Sat 11 Feb - Sun 11 June

Herbert Museum & Art Gallery, Coventry

GROWN UP IN BRITAIN: 100 YEARS OF TEENAGE KICKS Exhibition celebrating a century of teenage life, from the Roaring ’20s to the youth of today, until Sat 12 Feb, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry

DIVIDED SELVES: LEGACIES, MEMORIES, BELONGING Exploring notions of belonging at a time when the idea of nation is threatened... Sat 18 FebSun 24 Sept, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry

DIPPY IN COVENTRY: THE NATION’S FAVOURITE DINOSAUR Dippy the diplodocus visits Coventry on a three-year loan from the Natural History Museum, from Mon 20 February

Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

SILICON SPA: VIDEO GAMES IN LEAMINGTON Exhibition tracing the history of the gaming industry in Leamington and the surrounding area, until Sun 8 May

Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry

KATRINA PALMER: WHAT’S ALREADY GOING ON The artist’s largest commission to date unfolds along constructed corridors inspired by those located in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, until Sun 12 March

Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery

HEXACHROME SPRAWL Exhibition by Mark Scammell featuring a series of cross-stitch works based on aerial views of car parks, housing estates and retail parks, until Sun 19 March

Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum

WORCESTER SOCIETY OF ARTIST 75TH

ANNUAL EXHIBITION Showcasing and supporting local artists and the wealth of creative talent across Worcestershire, until Sat 25 Feb

BENJAMIN WILLIAMS LEADER: A HOMECOMING Works by Worcester’s most famous artist, famed for portraying idyllic and glorious views of British landscapes, until Sat 25 Feb

WATERMARK EXHIBITION

Contemporary artworks and paintings from the museum’s collections are brought together to explore climate change in terms of flooding - both locally and globally, until Sat 3 June

Elsewhere:

DEARTOMORROW: DEAR

WOLVERHAMPTON Community-led exhibition ‘exploring letters to the future and imagining the beauty of what could be in the face of climate change’, until Sun 12 Feb, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

VANLEY BURKE: A GIFT TO BIRMINGHAM Exhibition comprising 17 portraits representing the stories of members of Migrant Voice - a migrant-led organisation with a hub in Birmingham, until Fri 31 March, Handsworth Library, Birmingham

CRAFTSPACE: {QUEER} + {METALS}

The multiplicity of queerness is here explored via metalwork and metalsmithing, in an exhibition that makes visible the ways in which LGBTQIA+ creatives are shaping, disrupting and contributing to contemporary culture, until Sun 2 April, Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham

SHEMZA: ACROSS GENERATIONS

Featuring the work of renowned British Pakistani Modernist artist Anwar Jalal Shemza alongside the contemporary practice of Aphra Shemza, the artist’s granddaughter, until Sun 16 April, Wolverhampton

Art Gallery

PAYING RESPECTS: MONEY AND MORTALITY A compelling exhibition featuring highlights from the Barber’s superlative coin collection, which includes world-class caches of Byzantine, Trapezuntine and Sasanian currency, as well as significant holdings of Roman and medieval coins, until Sun 25 June, The Barber Institute, University of Birmingham

THREADS: MY HAPPY PLACE A yearlong display by independent textile group Threads, Wed 1 Feb - Mon 8 Jan 2024, Croome Park, Worcestershire

Gigs

LOWKEY Wed 1 Feb, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham

FAIRPORT CONVENTION

Wed 1 Feb, The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury

BRAVE RIVAL Wed 1 Feb, Temperance, Leamington Spa

AMBER ARCADES + HATER + THALA Thurs 2

Feb, The Tin Music and Arts, The Canal Basin, Coventry

RACHAEL DADD Thurs 2

Feb, Drapers’ Hall, Coventry

BROOKS WILLIAMS & AARON CATLOW Thurs 2

Feb, The Fleece Inn, Bretforton, Nr Evesham

TOVE STYRKE Fri 3 Feb, O2 Institute, B’ham

DVSN Fri 3 Feb, O2 Institute, Birmingham

THE BRIAN JONESTOWN

MASSACRE Fri 3 Feb, O2 Academy, Birmingham

BELINDA CARLISLE Fri 3 Feb, Symphony Hall, Birmingham

STIPE - R.E.M. TRIBUTE Fri 3 Feb, The

Assembly, Leamington Spa

NUHA RUBY RA Fri 3 Feb, The Tin Music and Arts, The Canal Basin, Coventry

BATTLE OF THE BOYBANDS Fri 3 Feb, The Rialto, Coventry

ILL CONSIDERED Fri 3

Feb, Drapers’ Hall, Coventry

LIMEHOUSE LIZZY Fri 3

Feb, hmv Empire, Coventry

THE LEGENDS OF AMERICAN COUNTRY

SHOW Fri 3 Feb, The Albany Theatre, Coventry

ELVIS - THE ULTIMATE

EXPERIENCE Fri 3 Feb, The Benn Hall, Rugby

MARTYN JOSEPH Fri 3

Feb, Huntingdon Hall, Worcester

MADE IN TENNESSEE Fri 3

Feb, Swan Theatre, Worcester

MALCOLM PITT - A TRIBUTE TO LIONEL

RICHIE Sat 4 Feb, The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury

VICKY JACKSON - PINK

TRIBUTE Sat 4 Feb, The Assembly, Leamington Spa

REBECCA DOWNES Sat 4 Feb, Temperance, Leamington Spa

NATHAN CARTER AND HIS BAND Sat 4 Feb, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry

IAN TODD Sat 4 Feb, The Tin Music and Arts, The Canal Basin, Coventry

UB42 Sat 4 Feb, The Rialto, Coventry

ANTARCTIC MONKEYS Sat 4 Feb, hmv Empire, Coventry

TOTAL REX Sat 4 Feb, Arches Venue, Coventry

FAUX FIGHTERS UK Sat 4 Feb, Queens Hall, Nuneaton

ESSENTIALLY CHER Sat 4 Feb, Marrs Bar, Worcester

KILLER RHAPSODYQUEEN TRIBUTE Sat 4 Feb, Huntingdon Hall, Worcester

G2 DEFINITIVE GENESIS Sat 4 Feb, Swan Theatre, Worcester

FRED ZEPPELIN Sat 4 Feb, 45Live, Kidderminster

MAN FI GET BUN Sun 5 Feb, O2 Academy, Birmingham

TONY HALL Sun 5 Feb, The Fleece Inn, Bretforton, Nr Evesham

SETH LAKEMAN Sun 5 Feb, Huntingdon Hall, Worcester

KALASHNIKOV SKINK + BAD EXCUSES + THE OPTIMISTS Sun 5 Feb, 45Live, Kidderminster