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The 100-work retrospective of Belgian surrealist René Magritte at the Tate Liverpool, “René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle,” June 24-Oct. 16, 2011, presents a full range of the artist’s iconic Surrealist images, of course, but it also includes something special -- a little-known series of erotic illustrations, displayed in the U.K. for the first time.

Gagosian Gallery seems to have everything else, why not stake out some territory in the digital realm as well? The official Gagosian Gallery iPad app launches this month, with a ton of interactive content and gigapixel photography of the gallery artists and exhibitions, which promises to open a truly expansive avant-garde esthetic space on your hand-held devices.

The Chicago art scene may lack a certain oomph, but that perception is made to be overcome. Thus, welcome the new Chicago art fair, the orthographically inverted exposition CHICAGO, scheduled to bow more than a year from now, Sept. 19-23, 2012, in Festival Hall at Navy Pier.

London is a hard art-fair market to break into, but New York art dealer Ed Winkleman is giving it a shot. The Moving Image, An Art Fair of Contemporary Video Art, Oct. 13-16, 2011 -- which debuted in New York only a few months ago -- is set for the Bargehouse warehouse, on London’s South Bank.

A vertical steel sculpture by Richard Serra is planned for the new 68-acre waterfront park being designed by the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, which is scheduled to debut on Dec. 16, 2011.

* Puerto-Rico based art-duo Allora & Calzadilla’s provocative six-part contribution to the 54th Venice Biennale as U.S. reps combines “technical mastery, conceptual creativity and ironic humor,” writes Laura Gonzales in Artlog.