Our ultimate guide to the best art exhibitions of the year so far, those still on, and the shows to plan ahead for: 2018 is a stellar year in art
After a two-year refurb, Hayward Gallery London reopened this January with a phenomenal Andreas Gursky exhibition. The gallery deliberately went big with this retrospective, and we loved it.
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This year, The Royal Academy celebrates its 250th anniversary. To kick off the celebrations, the museum's director, Christopher Le Brun, wanted to curate one of the greatest exhibitions of his career. Charles I: King and Collector reunites the greatest British art collection of all time for the first time in 350 years. It was a complete triumph.
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From prostitutes to street-peddlers and cross-dressers to circus performers: the Barbican celebrated the outsider in its compelling exhibition of photography spanning the last 50 years.
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Life laid bare: Fronted by Bacon and Freud, Tate Britain offered a striking survey of modern figurative painting. It may require stamina, but it was bold, challenging and utterly captivating. It was a total triumph.
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One of the most significant shows of the year opens at Tate Modern: Picasso 1932, Love, Fame, Tragedy is erotic, often brutal but everything we hoped it would be.
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Showcasing the ways in which fashionable dress has drawn on the natural world over the past 400 years, the V&A's Fashioned from Nature got everyone talking about sustainable fashion.
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The Design Museum London staged a blockbuster Azzedine Alaïa retrospective exploring the life and work of a modern master. Following the couturier's sudden passing in November 2017, Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier was a timely tribute to a fashion legend.
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The National Gallery's exhibition of Claude Monet paintings majestically illuminated a much neglected facet of the painter's work.
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Guest curator Grayson Perry breathed new life into the Summer Exhibition; Royal Academy of Art's longest running annual showcase of contemporary art.
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Come worship at the altar of Frida Kahlo in a rare exhibition of her wardrobe and possessions. The exhibition is a shrine to her memory – to the great artist that she was, and to the inspiration she is now – on and off the Pinterest boards.
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As the Courtauld Gallery closes for a two-year refurbishment, National Gallery presents the creme-de-la-creme of the Courtauld Impressionist collection.
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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.
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Will you be there? Get set for Michael Jackson: On the Wall, the National Portrait Gallery's summer blockbuster.
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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.
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This autumn, the UK's most famous eighteenth-century portrait artist, Thomas Gainsborough, will be the star of a 2018 solo retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery.
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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.
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