ART: THE FIVE BEST SHOWS AROUND THE COUNTRY

Giovanni Anselmo Ikon, Birmingham

Small mechanisms, big concepts - Italian artist working with energy and its potential. In his 1968 work, a lettuce supports a granite block. To 28 Mar

Ready to Shoot Norwich Gallery

Gerry Schum productions 1968-73 - a feast of TV and video projects from the early years of conceptualism, with Robert Smithson, Keith Arnatt, and many more. To 26 Feb

Bob and Roberta Smith

Baltic, Gateshead

"Help Build the Ruins of Democracy", with the art Hydra that is B and R Smith, using sculpture, social narrative, text for the people by the people. To 3 Apr

Richard Wentworth Tate Liverpool

Overview of sculpture and photographs by the British artist who celebrates DIY creativity in everyday objects - tactile, absurd, provisional. To 24 Apr

Jannis Kounellis Modern Art, Oxford

Steel, stone, sacks, coffee, coal, live fish, sharp knives: the material world of one of the central figures of the Italian Arte Povera movement. To 20 Mar