The Best Exhibitions in London

The best exhibitions on now

by TheartsdeskThursday, 30 January 2020

Picassso, ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe’ after Manet I, Mougins, 1962Musée national Picasso-Paris. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Marine Beck-Coppola. © Succession Picasso/DACS 2019

Picasso and Paper, Royal Academy ★★★ A fascinating subject that proves too unwieldy for a single exhibition. Until 13 Apr

Rembrandt's Light, Dulwich Picture Gallery ★★★★ A novel collaboration between curators and cinematographer Peter Suschitzky. Until 2 Feb

William Blake, Tate Britain ★★★★★ Vast and satisfying show for a visionary and iconic artist. Until 2 Feb

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Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch, Royal Academy review - juxtapositions that confuse rather than clarify Similar themes, different sensibilities

Zanele Muholi, Tate Modern review - photography as protest Pictures so confrontational they knock you sideways

Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer, Barbican Art Gallery review - mould-breaker, ground-shaker A crash course in the life and times of an iconoclast and muse

Sin, National Gallery review - great subject, modest show A small gathering can't do justice to this fabulous topic

Bruce Nauman, Tate Modern review - the human condition writ large in neon How to make great art out of almost nothing

Artemisia, National Gallery review - worth the wait A glorious celebration of one of the great baroque painters

Hold Still, National Portrait Gallery review - snapshots from lockdown An online exhibition offers a glimpse of life in Britain now

My Rembrandt review - hard cash and hubris Characters historical and contemporary mingle in an entertaining portrait of the art world

George IV: Art & Spectacle, The Queen's Gallery review - all is aglitter A sumptuous display from the Royal Collection heralds a top class reopening

Khadija Saye: In This Space We Breathe, 236 Westbourne Grove review - a celebrated series finds new resonance The artist's most celebrated works launch a new public art project in west London

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