ART: THE FIVE BEST SHOWS AROUND THE COUNTRY

1

Richard Wentworth Tate Liverpool

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

2

Ready to Shoot Norwich Gallery

Gerry Schum productions 968-73 - a feast of TV and video projects from the early years of conceptualism, with Robert Smithson, Keith Arnatt, and many more. To 26 Feb

3

Giovanni Anselmo Ikon, Birmingham

Small mechanisms, big concepts - Italian artist working with energy and its potential. In his 968 work, a lettuce supports a granite block. To 28 Mar

4

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

5

Walter Sickert

Southampton City Art Gallery

Drawings and prints by the Camden Town, turn-of-the-century painter of the London underside - cramped interiors, crowded theatres, unsettled nudes. To 20 Mar