This museum-style presentation at Gagosian’s impressive Grosvenor Hill space brings together three figurative sculptors from across 20th century art movements. At its centre is a set of ideas about how we can perceive the body — both from inside and outside. Picasso’s cubism, Giacommeti’s impossibly elongated figures and Nauman’s reflections of contemporary culture each put forward a new perspective on the matter.
For her first solo exhibition in London, at Alison Jacques’ new Cork Street space, Glaswegian painter Lorna Robertson plays hide-and-seek with abstraction and figuration. She works layers onto paper and canvas, adorning them with oil paint, watercolour, collage and linseed oil. Though rendered in bright colours, her characters often convey a sense of mystery — one that is intensified by the works’ elliptical titles, such A night of knowing nothing, (2024) a painting containing a large cast of barely-hidden figures.
For this selling exhibition 1,700 artworks, selected by a panel led by sculptor Ann Christopher RA, fill the galleries of Burlington House. Featuring a balance of well-known Royal Academicians and public submissions, the Summer Exhibition invariably contains the sublime, the ridiculous and much in between. With prices from under £250, you might even find something to take home with you,
The latest instalment of The National Gallery’s ‘Discover’ series, this exhibition presents Edgar Degas’ impressive painting of an aerial subject, circus artist Anna Albertine Olga Brown — also known as Miss La La. Displaying the work alongside its extensive preparatory drawings, it provides a view into the Impressionist master’s creative process.
Charleston, the country house of Bloomsbury Group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, is a living testament to how two individual creative practices can come together to form an entirely new one. This exhibition in Charleston’s new space in the town of Lewes presents collaborative outputs ranging from Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s fabric-covered buildings to Boyd and Evans’ intimate-scale paintings.
During his career as a film set photographer, Italian photographer Strizzi documented over 100 films in his home country of Italy and beyond. In the 80 images on show at the Estorick Collection, a beautiful small museum housed in a Georgian Villa on Canonbury Square, we see the line between actors and characters, candid and staged, begin to blur.
Divorced, Beheaded, Died: Divorced, Beheaded, Survived; the tale of Henry VIII’s six wives is one of the most often repeated stories in English history. Encompassing the painting, film costume, photography and more from the Tudor period and beyond, this exhibition presents some of the many factual and fictional representations of the six women behind the story.
