The Darwin Now exhibit explores Darwin’s life, his ground-breaking theory, and his theory’s relevancy in the 21st century. Examining the importance of the theory of evolution to the contemporary world and modern science, the exhibit explores reactions and highlights the work of several UK-based researchers who are pushing the boundaries of evolutionary science. The exhibit also explores how advances in fields as diverse as geology and economics influenced Darwin’s thinking.

August - September
San Diego State University’s Library
San Diego, California

UK artists exhibit their work at Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower Arts Center as part of UK/OK: Exploring Traditions in Contemporary Design. Contemporary British and Oklahoman designers are featured in this exploration of the intersection of handcraft and high design.  A number of British artworks in this exhibition are on loan from the British Council Collection, a ‘Museum Without Walls’ with more than 60 years worth of history.

August 7- January 3
Price Tower Arts Center
Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Welsh novelist and singer-songwriter Fflur Dafydd is the latest UK artist to participate in the British Council UK Writer-in-Residence Program this fall. During her visit to the University of Iowa’s  International Writing Program in September, Fflur will participate in a number of public events in Iowa City and Portland, Oregon.

September 16
9:00 PM
CONCERT
The Mill Restaurant
Iowa City, IA

September 25
12:00 PM
FREE PANEL DISCUSSION
Iowa City Public Library
Meeting Room A
Iowa City, Iowa

October 5
6:30 PM
FREE READING
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Main Campus Building, Swigert Commons
1241 NW Johnson Street
Portland, Oregon

October 9
6:30 PM
FREE PANEL DISCUSSION
Portland State University
Smith Memorial Student Union
Room 328
Portland, Oregon

October 10
12:00 PM
READING
Wordstock Book Fair
Oregon Convention Center
777 NW Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Portland, Oregon

Supported by Grants to Artists, UK artist Susan Hiller exhibits her work in Moby-Dick at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco.  Part of an exhibition trilogy based on canonical American novels, Moby-Dick is an investigation of Melville’s seminal fiction by a wide range of contemporary and historic artists. Sculpture, film, video, drawing, and photography and artifacts contribute insights into the book’s literary themes and underlying realities of American myths and life.

September 22 - December 12
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
San Francisco, California

Supported by Grants to Artists, Marc Camille Chaimowicz has his first American institutional exhibition with Enough Tiranny Recalled, a new reinstallation of his seminal 1972 work. Chaimowicz was one of the first British artists to merge the realms of performance and installation art; his Tiranny exhibition compels audience participation and is composed of a variety of experiential objects including masks, music, mirrors, lights and the artist himself.

September 24 -November 21
Artists Space
New York, New York

Supported by Grants to Artists, London artist Tom Gallant is one of 50 artists who cut, burn, tear, and shred paper to create compelling sculpture, installation, and video in Slash: Paper Under the Knife. This new exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York explores paper’s uses as a medium beyond its traditional role as a surface for painting or drawing.

October 7 - January 10
Museum of Arts and Design
New York, New York

UK theatre company Punchdrunk makes their US debut at A.R.T. with Sleep No More, an immersive event inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth and told through the lens of a Hitchcock thriller. In a sprawling, spooky labyrinth, audiences are free to wander and explore a haunting theatrical experience that’s “part art installation, part performance art, part adventure playground.”

October 8 – January 3
American Repertory Theater
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Supported by Grants to Artists, British artist Liam Gillick exhibits Three perspectives and a short scenario at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. At its heart, Gillick’s work is concerned with how art and architecture influence, and are themselves influenced by, interpersonal communication and interactions in the public sphere. This is the most comprehensive exhibition of Gillick's work in an American museum to date, including a major site-specific installation, a presentation of his design and published works, and a film documenting projects from the entirety of his career.

October 10 -January 10
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Contemporary dance troupe Hofesh Shechter Company performs Uprising and In your rooms on a West Coast tour this autumn. Intense physicality and emotion combine in two seminal pieces from this young choreographer: in Uprising, seven men bond and spar to a percussive score while In your rooms showcases ricocheting dancers laying bare frustrated desires for intimacy.

October 16-17
UCLA Live
Los Angeles, California

October 21
White Bird
Portland, Oregon

Masterful UK performance artist Tim Crouch returns to the US this fall with an East Coast tour of his play England. England is a performance inside an art gallery that explores the nature of trading in art and human beings. With great emotion, the play unravels an intimate mystery where cultures intersect and the lives of ordinary people are caught up in a global world.

November 2-4
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
an oak tree replaces England at this venue

November 6-7
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
Burlington, Vermont

November 10-11
Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

November 13-15
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

November 17-20
Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

UK physical theatre company DV8 perform To Be Straight With You in a California tour this fall. A poetic, unflinching exploration of tolerance, intolerance, religion and sexuality, this piece of dance theater is based on audio interviews with real people throughout the UK. Merging contemporary dance with text, documentary, animation and film, DV8 explores how modern society reconciles faith and human rights.

November 6-7
UCLA Live
Los Angeles, California

November 12-14
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, California

November 18
UCSB Arts & Lectures
Santa Barbara, California

UK photographer Simon Roberts exhibits his work in What Lies Beneath: Nature and Urban Landscape in EU Photography at the House of Sweden in Washington DC. Over twenty EU photographers explore the nuances of natural and built environments in this international exhibition, a partnership between FotoWeek DC and the Embassies of the EU Member States in Washington.

November 7 - 22
House of Sweden
Washington, DC