The biggest and best art exhibitions, London, Autumn 2018

Review: Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt, V&A ★★★★★

Tech heads, listen up! A new exhibition at the V&A London celebrates digital art and the rapidly changing design of video games. It's brilliant.

London Design Festival, 2018

The London Design Festival is the largest and most innovative design event of the year. For its sixteenth edition, the festival brings the coolest designers out of their studios and into our cultural lives, celebrating and promoting London as the design capital of the world.

Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cezanne, National Gallery, review ★★★★★

As the Courtauld Gallery closes for a two-year refurbishment, National Gallery presents the creme-de-la-creme of the Courtauld Impressionist collection.

Review: Pierre Huyghe, Serpentine Galleries, London ★★★★★

New Pierre Huyghe Serpentine exhibition harnesses the power to inspire awe and fear simultaneously. We left pondering some seriously, big but important questions.

Turner Prize 2018 exhibition, Tate Britain

An exhibition of work by the four shortlisted Turner Prize artists opens at Tate Britain this September. Awarded annually to an artist born, living or working in Britain, for an outstanding artistic contribution over the last twelve months, the Turner Prize reflects the best of British Art today.

Overtly political in their practice and deemed by the jury to 'reflect our times', this year's four shortlisted artists are:

British collective Forensic Architecture, Ph.D. student Naeem Mohaiemen, Glasgow-based flimographer Charlotte Prodger and multi-media artist Luke Willis Thompson.

Review: Oceania exhibition, Royal Academy, London ★★★★★

The new Royal Academy Oceania exhibition makes an almighty splash, as the UK's first large-scale overview of South Pacific art in over forty years.

Review: Yayoi Kusama exhibition, Victoria Miro London ★★★★★

Dots, infinity nets, pumpkins and more: Yayoi Kusama returns to Victoria Miro London this October. And she doesn't disappoint.

Best of Frieze London 2018, Regent's Park

Ah, Frieze. The money, the outfits, the cocktails. Oh, and the art. The biggest and most glamorous art fair in the world returns to London this October.

Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Celebrating Peanuts and Its Cultural Legacy, Somerset House

Good Grief! Don't miss the upcoming celebration of Peanuts, the nation's much-loved comic strip, and the life of its creator, Charlies M Schulz, at Somerset House this autumn.

Klimt/Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Royal Academy

The Royal Academy celebrates the centenary of Austrian Modernists, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, with a blockbuster retrospective in collaboration with Vienna's Albertina Museum.

Gainsborough's Family Album, National Gallery

Featuring over fifty paintings from public and private collections across the world, Gainsborough’s Family Album will chart Gainsborough's career trajectory and his rise from an eighteenth-century provincial artist to the realms of fame and fortune.

Ribera: Art of Violence, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road

A pioneer of the Spanish Baroque movement, Jusepe de Ribera is known for his preoccupation with violence. This exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery showcases forty-five of his works that portray saints and other figures undergoing torture and religious brutality. Expect a series of shocking paintings and drawings that may not be for the fainthearted...

Further afield: Schiele & Basquiat, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

Both prolific, both revolutionary, both dead at 28: Schiele and Basquiat, working at opposite ends of the C20th, single handily changed the course of art history.

This autumn, to mark the centenary of Schiele's death and the 30th anniversary of Basquiat's death, the Fondation Louis Vuitton will present a major comparative showcase of their work. With many pieces never seen before in Europe, this artistic extravaganza will certainly merit a trip to Paris.