I hope Glastonbury is going well for you. Or any other of the myriad festivals going on right now... I think there is one in my neighbour's garden.... Here's some things to be looking forward to:
Forthcoming Southbank spoken word (as part of London Literature Festival): Mark E Smith (16 July) and Polar Bear (18,19 July) www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Hop Farm Festival in Kent (6 July) looks good: Neil Young, Primal Scream, Supergrass, Rufus Wainright, Guilemots, Laura Marling etc www.hopfarmfestival.com
Hydro Connect festival in Argyll, Scotland (29-31 August) looks good too: Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, Sigur Ros, Manics, Goldfrapp, Grinderman, Spritualized, Mercury Rev, The Coral and many others. www.connectmusicfestival.com
There's still just time to catch the Brockley Open Studios this weekend: www.brockleyopenstudios.co.uk
Whitstable Biennale is on now until 6 July. www.whitstablebiennale.com
Visit the AutoItalia South East Gallery (Old Kent Road) before 5 July to see the show Alles Ist In Ordnung. NB: only open Fridays and Saturdays www.autoitaliasoutheast.org
I'm quite excited that a Richard Prince show has just opened at the Serpentine (until 7 Sept). I'm going to have to explore the easiest route to get a baby in a buggy over there on public transport, without it taking a week. www.serpentinegallery.org
The paintings of Chantal Joffe are at the Victoria Miro Gallery until 2 Aug. www.victoria-miro.com
FutureBluePerfect is a group show at Café Gallery Projects in Southwark Park with the unwieldy moniker of 'new relevancy in outmoded ideologies plucked from the historical recycling bin'. Meanwhile Silentium is a sound installation meditating on Benjamin Britten and Arvo Part. Until 27 July www.cafegalleryprojects.org
This Time Last Year is a show by New York artist Danica Phelps at Ritter/Zamet, featuring a 60ft drawing recording her travels bringing together time, space and emotion. The drawing will be divided up into sections for sale at the end. Until 26 July. www.ritterzamet.com
The Barbican has a show of extravagant Dutch fashion designers Viktor and Rolf, until 21 Sept. Also the film Sid and Nancy starring Gary Oldman is showing there on 8 July www.barbican.org.uk
On now at Tate Modern: Cy Twombly, which is an interesting contrast to their other show Street and Studio, so a full day's worth. until 14 Sept www.tate.org.uk/modern
Martin Creed has been commissioned to produce a work in the central Duveen galleries in Tate Britain, open from Monday www.tate.org.uk/britain
If you're in the South West check out Adam Chodko's neo-conceptual works at Tate St Ives until 21 Sept. I met this guy and he was very pleasant and I like his work. www.tate.org.uk/stives
Also in the West, at the Arnolfini in Bristol there is a show on called Far West which turns the gallery into a 'concept store' with an Eastern flavour, exploring the global cultural and commercial shift to the East. There are also off-site events and films as well as an offsite shop in the Broadmeads shopping centre. www.arnolfini.org.uk
