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The Guardian - UK
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Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark

Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures

Exhibitionist1205: Lindsay Seers
Lindsay Seers, Gateshead
Seers's enigmatic film, It Has to Be This Way2, is projected on to a circular screen inside a structure apparently based on a Swedish fort on the west African Gold Coast. Tales of diamond smuggling accompany the central theme of the disappearance of the artist's stepsister. At Baltic until 12 June
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist1205: David Hockney
David Hockney, York
Hockney's Bigger Trees Near Warter (Warter is a place in the Yorkshire Wolds) is a glorious monstrosity, hanging at 15 feet high and 40 feet long, a composite of 50 canvases painted on site. At York Art Gallery until 12 June
Photograph: Richard Schmidt/Tate Gallery
Exhibitionist1205: Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon, London
Gordon's second foray into feature film-making, entitled K364, follows two young Israeli musicians with Polish ancestors as they travel from Berlin to Warsaw through a landscape marked by the Holocaust. At Gagosian Britannia Street until 26 March
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist1205: Jean-Marc Bustamante
Jean-Marc Bustamante, Edinburgh
The internationally renowned French artist finally gets a look-in in the UK with this extensive show and an overlapping one at the Leeds Henry Moore Institute in April. At Fruitmarket Gallery until 3 April
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist1205: Johanna Domke
Johanna Domke, Derby
Domke infiltrates the museums with her earthy grey sculptural figures and an air of Victorian sentimentality and nostalgia. At Derby Museum and Art Gallery and Pickford's House until 30 June
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist1205: Juliao Sarmento
Julião Sarmento, London
In the Portuguese artist's latest show canvases are shaken up with vivid drips of red, yellow and blue, while modernist buildings float in psychological limbo and wispy body parts all but evaporate into the paint. At Pilar Corrias Gallery, Wed to 19 March
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist1205: Michael Craig-Martin
Michael Craig-Martin, Bideford
The artist's Alphabet Series is a game of words and pictures, with Pantone-bright screenprints that make an irregular A-Z. Letters are paired with 26 linear drawings of everyday stuff – but the visuals don't match up in the way you'd expect. At Burton Art Gallery & Museum until 14 March
Photograph: Michael Craig-Martin/Alan Cristea Gallery
Exhibitionist1205: Watercolour
Watercolour, London
Rare gems on show include William Blake's The River of Life – his visions of angels and alternative creation myths, where pale wash is held by inky lines. At Tate Britain, Wed to 21 August
Photograph: PR
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