- The resurgence of nature writing has brought with it a clutch of artists investigating landscape, including Simon Whitehead. In Walks to Illuminate he invites people to walk at night through the Yorkshire sculpture park, wearing shoes that glow, from 27th October.
- Francis Giacobetti's photographs of Francis Bacon are stark and eviscerating, a fascinating coda to Bacon's own work and shown at the University Gallery, Northumbria, from 21st October
- In the run-up to its marathon complete works season, the RSC takes a break from the bard with its New Work festival; this year's includes Sweet Charity, Daniel Kramer's play about western aid, at the Swan Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon on 25th October.
- His contemporaries called Glasgow painter Alexander Galt the "human camera." In "A Colourist Rediscovered," some of his previously unseen works are at Panter and Hall, London, from 2nd November.
- Two Playful Pink is the deceptively bland title of an explosive piece of contemporary dance by Israeli choreographer Yasmeen Godder, coming to the Place, London, from 10th November, along with Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder, in which Godder tackles her country's political situation more directly.
