Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor and Cornelia Parker.

Art & Talking is a new art-ist-run gallery at 6 Middle Row in Chipping Norton. The venue launched in April with the dis-tinctively titled group exhibition 'The Banana Show' and presents a new group exhibition, 'An Oak Show', in early July. The gallery's name is inspired by seminal Conceptual Art collective Art & Language (A&L member Charles Harrison lived in the town), and

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its programme therefore centres discursive events, such as talks, walks and poetry readings, as well as a book launch on 12 July for Stewart Home's Fascist Yoga, which examines the darker roots of the wellness practice.

Queen Bee

The collaboration between Foster + Partners and Yinka Shonibare OBE has been selected to deliver the national Queen Elizabeth II Memorial for St James's Park in