Beauty fades: the exhibitions to catch before autumn arrives
From the RA Summer Show to a crackpot Icelander, these are the shows you might have missed. Go, go, go! Catch before they close this autumn
RA Summer Exhibition 2016: Highlights ★★★★★
An embarrassment of riches: every year, the world’s largest open-submission exhibition rolls into Piccadilly. This year's crop doesn't disappoint.
Read more ...Cornelia Parker: FOUND, Foundling Museum Review★★★★★
This exhibition comes as a surprise – and a complete delight. Turner Prize-winning, shed-exploding artist Cornelia Parker curates a show of found objects, with Phyllida Barlow, Jarvis Cocker, Richard Deacon, Tacita Dean, Edmund de Waal, Brian Eno, Antony Gormley and many other luminaries.
Read more ...Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings, Courtauld Gallery ★★★★★
Ribbons of colour whirl: torques of brown, red and green churn, layer upon layer. White filigree dances across the surface, ending in frail curlicues.
Did we mention they were drawn by ghosts?
Read more ...Ragnar Kjartansson, Barbican Centre
The Icelandic installation artist Ragnar Kjartansson is bringing his acclaimed The Visitors to the Barbican. Prepare to be enchanted by the playful, melancholy, baffling, loving art of Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson.
Read more ...Mona Hatoum review, Tate Modern ★★★★★
Palestinian Mona Hatoum is one of the most important artists working today. She rose to prominence in the '80s, emerging from a Leftist countercultural scene dominated by performance art and identity politics. But Hatoum has transcended these labels; her voice is universal and a force for peace, the world over. This is her (long overdue) first major UK survey.
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