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Visual Arts

The best art exhibitions: London, autumn 2020

After months of lying dormant, London’s galleries are springing back to life this autumn, offering a flurry of new exhibitions from a real cross-section of artists.

From Bruce Nauman at the Tate Modern to Tracey Emin at the Royal Academy, these are the shows to earmark in your diary for the autumn season.

Tracey Emin/ Edvard Munch exhibition, Royal Academy

Tracey Emin/ Edvard Munch exhibition, Royal Academy

'I’ve been in love with this man since I was 18,' Tracey Emin said of Edvard Munch, the Norwegian artist best known for his angst-ridden masterpiece The Scream (1893). The work of these two artists is certainly connected by an interest in the darker regions of the human psyche and Emin's fascination with Munch's work makes perfect sense, when you consider the grief and trauma suffered by both.


This November, the Royal Academy will stage an exhibition that brings these two students of emotion together.

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Sunday 15 November - 28 February 2021, daily 11am-5pm
WHERE
Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Paradise Lost exhibition, Kew Gardens

Paradise Lost exhibition, Kew Gardens

Artist Jan Hendrix's immersive exhibition at Kew Gardens will explore the fragile wonders of Kamay Botany Bay on the southern coast of Australia. Specimens collected by the botanist Joseph Banks and naturalist Daniel Solander are going on display as part of the exhibition, which straddles the line between art and architecture, and is Hendrix's first solo UK show.

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WHEN
Saturday 3 October - Sunday 14 March 2021; Monday to Friday, 10am-7pm (last entry 6pm). Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays: 8am-8pm (last entry, 7pm)
WHERE
Kew Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1654 or later) Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria about 1615-17. © The National Gallery, London

Artemisia, National Gallery

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654 or later) is one of the most important painters of the Italian baroque and something of a feminist icon. She was a follower of Caravaggio and the first woman to become a member of the Accademia delle Arte di Disegno, a significant achievement in a violently misogynistic period of history.


This autumn, the National Gallery is mounting an exhibition of Gentileschi’s paintings, the first monograph of her work to be staged in the UK. The show’s centrepiece will be her Self Portrait as the martyred Saint Catherine of Alexandria (about 1615-17), acquired by the gallery in 2018 for £3.6 million.

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WHEN
Saturday 3 October - Sunday 24 Jan 2021, 10am-6pm
WHERE
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN
Bruce Nauman exhibition, Tate Modern

Bruce Nauman exhibition, Tate Modern

Provocative, raunchy, uplifting, darkly funny… Bruce Nauman’s work is all of these. His art has also been described as unsettling, even obtuse. Visitors to Tate Modern will be able to draw their own conclusions about Nauman's work this October, with an exhibition showcasing the full range of his 50-year career through more than 40 artworks.

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WHEN
Wednesday 7 October - Sunday 21 Feb 2021, 10am-6pm
WHERE
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tate Britain 2020

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night, Tate Britain

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is undoubtedly one of her generation's most intriguing painters. Her style is heavily influenced by the old masters, painters such as Goya and Manet, but there is no doubt that her work is the product of a modern mind. Tate Britain is staging an exhibition of over 80 works by the Turner-nominated artist, the most comprehensive survey of her career to date.

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WHEN
Wednesday 18 November - Sunday 9 May 2021, daily 10am-6pm
WHERE
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020

Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace, The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace

Some of the Queen’s hidden masterpieces – which usually hang in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace – will go on public display in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition this December. Central to the exhibition of 65 paintings are outstanding works by the likes of Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer, van Dyck and Canaletto. Visitors will be encouraged to look at the exhibited works ‘close up’ so as to engage with the creative processes of artists now celebrated the world over.

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WHEN
Friday 4 December - Monday 31 January 2022; Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
WHERE
The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1A 1AA
Michael Clark, Because We Must 1987, Sadler's Wells London © Richard Haughton

Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer, Barbican Gallery

It's impossible to overestimate Michael Clark's impact on British dance. Fresh out of the Royal Ballet School, a ballet graduate of rare elegance with a glorious classical line, he abandoned his first job with Ballet Rambert and chose instead to plunge wholeheartedly into the heady post-punk culture of 80s Britain. This autumn, the Barbican honours the epoch-making career of the dancer and choreographer with a comprehensive exhibition.

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WHEN
Wednesday 7 October - Sunday 3 January 2021, 11am-7pm, Monday to Friday; 10am-7pm weekends
WHERE
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
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