Detroit techno heads need look no further than the Mall for their fix this summer. For the first time in the UK, the Institute of Contemporary Arts is hosting an exhibition charting the rise of the music genre from its 1970s disco origins to the militantly political Underground Resistance collective formed in the late 1980s. Exhibited in the Fox Reading Room, Detroit: Techno City (until 25 September) is a bijoux display of videos, record sleeves and documentation. Small, but perfectly formed, this show is sure to prove a hit.
To mark the Freud Museum’s 30th anniversary and the 160th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud, the Turner prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger has created the ultimate representation of the ego: a mirror installed across the entire ceiling of the psychoanalyst’s study. Another work, Self (shaped as the letter “I”), has been permanently installed in the garden, visible from Freud’s desk. Meanwhile a selection of self-portraits makes Mark Wallinger: Self Reflection (until 25 September) an unmissable exhibition about me, myself and I.
Of the several hundred intricate and symbolic watercolour drawings created by the spiritualist medium and artist Georgiana Houghton, only around 40 have survived. A selection are on show in Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings at the Courtauld Gallery (until 11 September), having last been exhibited in 1871. Houghton never claimed to be the creator of her drawings, but this exhibition should firmly write her into the history of art.
