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Oh who doesn’t like to be beside the seaside? A new exhibition, A Welsh Connection (May 12-31, Contemporary Six, Manchester, contemporarysix.co.uk), collects landscapes of north Wales by the artist Anne Aspinall, where many in the north-west of England have much-loved memories of childhood holidays.
Meanwhile, it’s a tale of yesterday and tomorrow in London this week. First up, The Return Of The Past: Postmodernism In British Architecture (May 16 to August 27, Holborn, London; soane.org) looks at the seismic impact of postmodernism on building design, where architects started ripping up the past and began to create a knowing new future. Zooming in on key names like Terry Farrell, Piers Gough and Jeremy Dixon, their influence will be explained through drawings, models, full-scale replicas and fragments from actual buildings…