Marking the reopening of the 19th-century Bowes mansion house, Damien Hirst: Print Maker displays some of the dry wit and chilling formal and thematic restraint of the artist's best early sculptures – in contrast to his lambasted recent paintings. See the set at the Bowes Museum until 27 February 2011 Photograph: G5 Paintings
Stuffit's Mortgage Strike, above, is typical of this exhibition on the theme of cultural resistance to capitalist corruption and political deception, which features a roll call of international big names. If resistance is your thing, follow the crowd to the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art by 5 February Photograph: PR
Free Fall, a film trio, charts the life of a Boeing 707-700 that started its career with aviation pioneer Howard Hughes and finished (and was finished off) on the set of Speed. Showing at the Chisenhale Gallery until 19 December Photograph: PR
As with Roll, above, Angel takes functional and often domestic objects and perverts their usefulness so they resemble props in some outlandish play. Buckets are piled up precariously; crutches given wheels. Head to the Corn Exchange Gallery in Edinburgh by 13 January 2011 to see the everyday turned upside down Photograph: PR
Relph's first solo show takes its cue from Margaret Thatcher's use of a hanky to show her distate for BA's late-90s tail redesign. The artist drapes model planes in patterns plucked from Bauhaus, interspersing them with culturally freighted fabric collages. Get down to London's Herald St by 17 December Photograph: PR
Hawkins is a polymath whose interests cruise freely from sweet to spooky, horror-movie gothic to gay literature, art history to poster-boy crush. Frankenstein-like collages of beautiful youths cut from fashion magazines, such as Spolia #3, above, hang alongside vivid abstract paintings and other highlights from his 20-year career. Showing at Corvi-Mora until 23 December
Photograph: Corvi-Mora, London/RG Image
In the film Anarcadia, above, two enigmatic characters traverse a remote wilderness rich with hidden history. In another, the artist explores a city that seems straight out of science fiction, but is in fact Astana, Kazakhstan. Catch them, along with photographic displays, at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton from Tuesday until 10 January 2011 Photograph: PR
Gulzar's Face2Face installation is an invitation to pierce the self-conscious facade presented to the viewer by four video curtain-screens spouting confessional monologues. It's only on walking through the slats that the actual experiences are represented more appropriately on the screen's hidden side. Peek beyond the veil at the University of Bradford Gallery by 25 November Photograph: PR
