British artist Fiona Banner has hung a retired Royal Navy Harrier jump jet from the roof of Tate Britain, and a Jaguar parked upside-down on the floor, as part of the gallery’s Duveens Commission. Incongruously framed by the gallery’s elegant neo-classical corridor Jaguar and Harrier are a comment on the glorification of the killing machines.

Tate Britain: 28 June – 3 January 2011

His name is hardly known, even in his native France, but for almost 10 years Raymond Cauchetier chronicled one of the most exciting and revolutionary film decades. Now his photographs of the French New Wave are to go on display together for the first time.

La Nouvelle Vague. Iconic New Wave Photographs by Raymond Cauchetier. At the James Hyman Gallery in London from July 14 to August 28.

Read all about brilliant 76 year old British artist Rose Wylie and her monumental paintings here and Germaine Greers essay here.

Influential 20th century American painter Alice Neel, 1900–1984, is best known for her portraits of celebrated artists and writers from New York, including Andy Warhol, Frank O’Hara, Meyer Shapiro and Linda Nochlin. The exhibition Painted Truths at London’s Whitechapel Gallery shows an overview of these portraits. Untill 17 September.

Group exhibition, including: Democracia, Lukas Maximilian Hüller, Mitra Tabrizian, Artists Anonymous, Nadine Rennert, Li Wei. From 7 June – 8 September at Gallery Caprice Horn, Berlin.

The sixth edition of PREVIEW BERLIN – The Emerging Art Fair, Berlin’s most successful satellite art fair, will take place from October 8 – 10, 2010 in Berlin’s historic Tempelhof Airport. Since its foundation in 2005, the fair has offered national as well as international galleries and project spaces a platform to present the works of a new generation of emerging artists to collectors, experts and art lovers, and also set these up for discussion.

Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas‘ exhibition ‘Pandora’s Box‘ is a darkly captivating journey into a high-class sex club that specializes in sado-masochism. 27 May – 3 July at the Wapping Project Bankside, London.

The art of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) possesses the same intensity and energy that marked his brief life. The artist star died on August 12, 1988, at age 27, of a drug overdose. In the space of only eight years he had succeeded in creating an extensive oeuvre and introducing new figurative and expressive elements into contemporary art.

On the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, the Fondation Beyeler in Basel,  is devoting the first large exhibition ever held in Europe to this outstanding American draftsman and painter. Comprising over 100 works, it traces Basquiat’s unique artistic development and reflects his place in art history. Conceived as a retrospective, the exhibition also enables a rediscovery and re-evaluation of one of the most fascinating personalities in the history of recent art. 9 May – 5 September.

On 8 May the Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Chelsea location in New York City ‘Some Pictures from the 80′s’, an exhibition of paintings by David Salle.

Huge installation at the Park Avenue Armory called ‘No Man’s Land’ by Christian Boltanski. This work is haunted by death, memory and loss. NY Times review and time lapse video here.