Nicole Eisenman’s retrospective at Whitechapel is a riotous ride through her extraordinarily wide range of work – from monumental paintings and monoprints to sculptures, animations and drawings – as well the socio-political issues of the day.

Along the way you’ll find a hilarious video of snatches of art world conversation, a tangle of urinating women, and a mother giving birth while being hanged. Violent, witty, carnal, queer and packing an almighty punch, the American artist’s electrifying show keeps you transfixed at every turn.

As we disperse around the country for the Christmas holidays, The Wick brings you cultural highlights to catch in different corners of the nation. No trip north is complete without a ramble around the grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, filled with pieces by artworld greats. This season, wrap up warm to enjoy its 1.85-mile Fire and Light walking route. It begins at the Chapel, where you can experience the multi-sensory Light Organ, before ending at James Turrell’s Deer Shelter Skyspace at sunset.

Along the way you’ll take in Marialuisa Tadei’s mosaic work Night and Day, which uses the colours of dusk and dawn to create a portal into a more ethereal world, and Big Mutter, a giant hot water bottle with human feet by Erwin Wurm, whose solo exhibition Trap of the Truth (until 28 April 2024) charges the Underground Gallery with his characteristic wit. Be sure to catch Jonathan Baldock’s Touch Wood (until 7 July) exhibition in The Weston Gallery too. He takes inspiration from the seasons, paganism, myth and folklore to take you on a mystical journey that asserts our deep connection to nature. It’s quite the trip.

https://ysp.org.uk/winter-of-light-and-fire