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Your guide to the best art exhibitions London has to offer

By Lucy Scovell on 25/4/2018

From the blockbuster museum shows to art off the beaten track: these are the best art exhibitions on now

Tacita Dean, Majesty, 2006. © Courtesy the artist; Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris.

Tacita Dean: Landscape, Portrait, Still Life

This extraordinary exhibition, celebrating the work of Tacita Dean, takes place in three of London's biggest galleries. Each takes on a different classical genre: Dean's artwork asks us to rethink landscapes, portraits and still life

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WHEN
15 March – 28 May (National Gallery and NPG), 19 May – 12 August ( RA)
WHERE
The National Gallery, The National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Academy
They Come to Us without a Word II2015Performance at Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Venice, Italy, 2015.Photo by Moira Ricci.© 2017 Joan Jonas : Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York : DACS, London.

Joan Jonas, Tate Modern review ★★★★★

The Tate Modern pays tribute to performance art in a radical new retrospective of pioneering contemporary artist Joan Jonas. The exhibition is multimedia: it includes films, objects and live performances by Jonas herself.

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WHEN
14 Mar 2018 – 05 Aug 2018, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
WHERE
Tate Modern
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), The Kiss,large version, after 1898, Plaster, cast from first marble version, of 1888–98© Musée Rodin

Review: Rodin exhibition, the British Museum ★★★★★

A ground-breaking new Rodin exhibition at the British Museum explores how the ancient world shaped the artistic vision of a modern master.

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WHEN
26 Apr 2018 – 29 Jul 2018, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
WHERE
British Museum
Great Russell St, London, WC1B 3DG
The Titanic in dry dock, c.1911, © Getty Images

Ocean Liners: Speed & Style, review, V&A ★★★★★

Smashing all expectations, the V&A's first major exhibition of 2018 is fun, glitzy, and really quite a ride. Bon Voyage.

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WHEN
03 Feb 2018 – 10 Jun 2018, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
WHERE
V&A
South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
Nathan Coley, The Same for Everyone, 2017, St Peter's Churchyard, Cambridge

Actions. The image of the world can be different, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Kettle's Yard – the UK's most loved modern and contemporary art gallery outside of London – reopens after a magnificent two-year, £11M facelift. To celebrate its reopening on 10 February 2018, Kettle's Yard stages Actions. The image of the world can be different in the swanky new galleries.

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WHEN
10 Feb 2018 – 06 May 2018, Tuesday – Sunday
WHERE
Kettle's Yard
Castle St, Cambridge , CB3 0AQ
Detail from Claude Monet, 'The Grand Canal (Le Grand Canal)', 1908 © Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Gift of Osgood Hooker 1960.29​

Review: Monet & Architecture, National Gallery, London ★★★★★

The National Gallery's new exhibition of Claude Monet paintings of architecture majestically illuminates a much neglected facet of the painter's work.

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WHEN
09 Apr 2018 – 29 Jul 2018, Saturday - Thursday 10:00 - 18:00, Friday 10:00 - 21:00
WHERE
National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN
Lucian Freud, Girl With Dog (1950-1). Tate. © Tate

Review: All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, Tate Britain, ★★★★★

Life laid bare: Fronted by Bacon and Freud, Tate Britain offers a striking survey of modern figurative painting.

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WHEN
28 Feb 2018 – 27 Aug 2018, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
WHERE
Tate Britain
Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG
Paz Errázuriz. From the series La Manzana de Adán (Adam’s Apple), 1983

Another Kind of Life, Barbican, review ★★★★★

From prostitutes to street-peddlers and cross-dressers to circus performers: the Barbican celebrates the outsider in its compelling exhibition of photography spanning the last 50 years.

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WHEN
28 Feb 2018 – 27 May 2018, Last entry 5.30pm
WHERE
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Pablo Picasso, The Dream, 1932

Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy ★★★★★, Tate Modern

One of the most significant shows of the year opens at Tate Modern: Picasso 1932, Love, Fame, Tragedy is erotic, sensual and everything we'd hoped it would be.

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WHEN
08 Mar 2018 – 10 Sep 2018, Sunday to Thursday 10.00-18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00-22.00
WHERE
Tate Modern
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Embroidered silk waistcoat, France, 1780-9Image Vee Speers © V&A

Review: Fashioned From Nature ★★★★★

An exhibition that shocks, inspires, and leaves you with the unshakeable urge to reconsider your wardrobe.

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WHEN
21 Apr 2018 – 27 Jan 2019, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
WHERE
V&A
South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
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