Depending on whom you ask, Nancy Holt is either one of the world's most celebrated artists, or one of the most misrepresented.  A case in point for the latter: this exhibition, Photoworks at Haunch of Venison, is her first solo show in the UK.  An argument for the latter: that fact is - frankly - unbelievable.

The reason for both points: Nancy Holt was married to Robert Smithson, and the legend of the great artist-environmentalist hangs heavy over the large-scale works that utilise the earth itself.  Holt herself was part of the Land Art movement at its seminal peak.  Her works are comprised of an extensive body of media: audiotapes, videotapes, photography, site-specific installation, artist's books, in addition to the significant land sculpture commissions.

Her most famous work, the Sun Tunnels, are four large concrete tunnels, 18ft long and 9ft in diameter, sculpted into the Utah desert.  They act as devices for viewing the truly astonishing landscape.  This exhibition includes over a hundred photographs from 1967 onwards.  The scale is different, and the view is remarkably different.  In this show we can see, through a lens - a common point of view, how Holt herself observes the world around her.

Nancy Holt: Photoworks is at Haunch of Venison until 25 August.

Founded in 2003, DegreeArt.com has been helping graduates and emerging artists sell their work and come to terms with managing the business of being an artist in 'the real world'.  Of course, the dream of the artist is to never live in the real world, unfortunately their landlords may suggest otherwise.  Film and video art is notoriously difficult to sell.  Now, a number of artists on DegreeArt.com's books are up for exhibition and on display at DegreeArt's Execution in the group show audio video.

The aim of the exhibition is to provide a point of entry into the diverse and sometimes bafflingly eccentric world of artists' moving image.  Sales for artists' film and video have been on the increase in recent years - its popularity has risen steeply, due in no small part to the number artist-filmmakers whose works have been appropriated into the cinema system.  Significantly, artists such as Clio Bernard, Steve McQueen, Gillian Wearing and Ben Rivers have shown that there can be a direct route to a mainstream audience from a grounding in the fine arts.

On display here are eight emerging artists: Alex Ressel, Sonny Sanjay Vadgama, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Rachel Maclean, Dagmar Schurrer, George Petrou, Jasmina Metwaly and Tobias Zehnter.  Work by young or emerging artists is looked upon very favourably around Because Magazine, and London is one of the great international hubs for graduating art students.  It's what keeps us fresh, and this exhibition gives us a great example as to why.

audio video is at Degree Art Execution until 29 July.

Todd Solondz makes films that are very dark and very funny. Taken impartially, it is quite incredible, considering the subject matter, that they manage to gather a wide audience. His previous film, Life During Wartime, was a sequel (of sorts) of perhaps his most famous, Happiness. The film dealt with the return to the suburban homestead of a paedophile, convicted in the first movie, and the various problems of his extended family. Drugs, adultery, suicide and (in one particularly memorable scene from Happiness) the adolescent fear of being unable to climax. Remember, these are comedies, and very funny ones at that.

Solondz's most recent film is is currently in cinemas. Dark Horse is the anti-romcom, in that it's not particularly romantic and it's not overtly funny. Abe is a loser. He lives with his parents, has no friends and considers life one big humiliation. Then, one day, he meets his equal opposite other (played to perfection by Solondz regular Selma Blair). Despite being initially confused as to why he would ask her out, they go on a date. He ill-advisedly proposes and she is pleasantly surprised by their first kiss, "That could have been much worse," she says.

Plot is a by-word, if not a by-product of the relationship between our matching misanthropes. Dark Horse has been described as a 'feelbad masterpiece', but that kind of misses the point of a Todd Solondz film. Most films are about outsiders, in one way or another, from the arthouse fare of Harmony Korine to the blockbusters of Steven Spielberg. Solondz's films are simply present the ultimate outsiders, those people that you see every day, who feel that they live on the fringes of society. The people who feel that they don't 'fit in'. In Solondz they have their champion, and in us their fans.

Dark Horse is on limited release.