Despite the anti-hierarchical and culturally levelling theories of academic postmodernism, the worlds of craft and fine art remain mutually almost exclusive. Craft is practically useful and domestically enhancing; fine art is practically useless and inclines towards aesthetic disorientation. Crafts people quite rightly resent fine artists' assumption of creative superiority, and fine artists tend to get upset if their work is denigrated as decorative or crafty. The cultural in-between-places are where new stuff happens, of course, and Danish artist Anders Ruhwald fully recognises the fact. His immaculately crafted ceramics might obliquely resemble domestic furniture or utensils, yet their handiness is always perversely frustrated, so his art-that-looks-like-craft simply evokes dream scenarios.
• Middlesbrough Institute Of Modern Art, to 15 Feb
