LONDON - The Turner Prize returns to Tate Britain after it launched Liverpool’s Capital of Culture at Tate Liverpool in 2007. The artists are Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes whose work will be on view starting on Tuesday September 30.

NASHVILLE, TN - Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art presents the second annual exhibition, Scarecrows, on display September 27 through November 9. Dozens of fabulous, weird, funny, and traditional scarecrows will lurk along Cheekwood’s paths. The community is invited to participate by designing one of the many scarecrows that will be displayed.

JAMAICA, NY - During the month of October, Queens Library celebrates the rich history of people retelling tales of the past, and making them come alive today. On Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 p.m., author and documentary filmmaker Sadia Shepard, daughter of a Pakistani Muslim mother and a Caucasian American Protestant father, discusses her memoir on her search for identity, The Girl from Foreign , at Queens Library at Glen Oaks, 256-04 Union Turnpike; 718-831-8636. Admission is free.

BALTIMORE, MD - School 33 Art Center and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts are pleased to exhibit Vision Quest curated by Jason Hughes, School 33 Art Center’s exhibitions coordinator. The exhibition runs through October 4, 2008. The featured artists in the exhibition Vision Quest include Seth Adelsberger, Sarah Gamble, James Johnson, Patrick O’Malley, and Christine Buckton Tillman.

TYLER, TX.- A “perfect union of form and function” awaits visitors as the Tyler Museum of Art gets set to unveil its major fall exhibition, Eva Zeisel: The Shape of Life. The exhibition, showcasing close to 100 pieces designed by the Hungarian-born artist who revolutionized ceramic design throughout the world and brought an original brand of modernism into American homes beginning in the 1940s continues through Dec. 9 in the TMA’s North Gallery.

New York City - On Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Swann Galleries will hold its fourth African-American Fine Art Sale, spotlighting more than 100 scarce and important paintings, sculptures and works on paper by some of the most distinguished African-American artists of the 19^th and 20^th centuries.  Featured lots include rare examples of early African-American abstract art by Charles Alston, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff and Ellis Wilson, among others.  

BONN, GERMANY - Kunstmuseum Bonn presents Nedko Solakov - "Emotions", on view through November 16, 2008. Nedko Solakov’s broadly spanned, sprawling and formally almost uncontainable work is thematically one great assault on any demand for the perfect, the definitive and the unequivocal. Beginning with his education in wall painting at the Art Academy in Sophia, the Bulgarian artist, born 1957, has developed an oeuvre just as humorous as it is playful, as biting as it is melancholic, and which fundamentally calls in question any kind of representative system.

New York City - The June Kelly Gallery opens its fall season with an exhibition of paintings by Victor Kord entitled Algorithm and Blues - new work that teems with provocative color, form and imagery. Kord’s paintings will be on view at the gallery, through September 30.

Warsaw, Poland - For the past fifty years Yoko Ono has been a leading experimental and avant-garde artist - one of very few women - in an international context. In the course of time she has been associated with Conceptual Art, performances, Fluxus and happenings, but above all she has been an independent artist, a pioneer, who has decisively questioned the concept of art and the art object and has broken down the traditional boundaries between branches of art.

LONDON.- A fantastic collection of contemporary photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London will take centre stage at The Herbert in Coventry.  "Something That I’ll Never Really See" will feature over 30 artists in the new Gallery 1 at the venue which has undergone a £20 million refurbishment and extension in Jordan Well in the city centre. The exhibition, which is organized by the V&A, will run from September 16, 2008 until January 11, 2009 and admission is free.