The Belgian artist's video installations are a complex collage of disturbing documentary and playful make-believe. Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, an almost hypnotic cultural study of aeroplane hijacks, is on show at Edinburgh Fruitmarket gallery, until 11 July 2010.
Photograph: Rony Vissers/Edinburgh Fruitmarket gallery
A major highlight here is conVENience, set in a ladies' loo, with babies blown out of noses and moths with cameras for eyes. This is spooky stuff, as alarming as it is seductive. At Parasol Unit from 26 May to 6 August 2010.
Photograph: Parasol Unit
More than 150 anti-war paintings and drawings by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, these works reveal the artist as a passionate peace activist. At Tate Liverpool until 30 August 2010.
Photograph: Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Tate
As the latest artist to fill the Whitechapel's Bloomberg commission, Barclay has decided to turn the gallery 'inside out' with an installation of door and window-like constructions. At the Whitechapel Gallery, London E1, from 26 May 2010 until 2 May 2011.
Photograph: Whitechapel Gallery
An Essay Of Emptiness is Lynch's images of empty rooms, living spaces vacated of all human experience, maybe places awaiting a haunting. At Edinburgh Corn Exchange Gallery, until 15 July 2010.
Photograph: Corn Exchange Gallery
Photojournalism of war and assassinations, and artworks featuring private and military surveillance reveal the camera to be a weapon of knowledge, power and social control. At Tate Modern, from 28 May until 3 October 2010.
Photograph: Walker Evans/Tate
Young photographer Stuart Whipps has been trawling Essex's former hinterlands for his latest project, a study of how Thamesmead developed, at Focal Point Gallery, until 3 July 2010.
Photograph: Focal Point Gallery
New York-based, Korean-born artist Sun K Kwak infiltrates the gallery spaces with a monumental baroque proliferation of cut black vinyl stuck directly to the immaculate white cube walls, part of this group show at Walsall New Art Gallery, until 4 July 2010.
Photograph: Youngha Cho/New Art Gallery
