ART: THE FIVE BEST SHOWS AROUND THE COUNTRY

1

Christine Borland Dundee Contemporary Arts

Borland takes on genetics with UV light, floating DNA, and jelly- fish filmed glowing in the dark. To 23 Jan 2000

2

Prunella Clough Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

New work by the Jerwood Prize-winning painter of fragile, fine- tuned, not quite abstracts: "paintings that say a small thing, rather edgily". To 22 Jan 2000

3

Dutch Genre Paintings Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

From the Mauritshuis collection in The Hague - 7th-century Dutch folk shown in a low light - eating, drinking, flirting and going to the loo. To 9 Jan 2000

4

Ian Breakwell Loughborough University New Gallery

Artist and wordsmith, Breakwell's TEXTWORKS spans 30 years of visual poetry, calligraphy, tape, TV, prints and manipulated language. To 7 Dec

5

Expressionism in Germany Ferens Gallery, Hull

Dark and stormy paintings and prints by the Expressionist groups working through the discord of the early 20th century. To 6 Jan 2000