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  • Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

    Taking its title from an Oscar Wilde short story, this group show whose setting echoes the salons and society gatherings of the playwright’s time, playfully explores the complexities of persona and performance

  • Something Else Entirely: The Illustration Art of Edward Gorey

    As the Society of Illustrators celebrates the centenary of Gorey’s birth, we look back at the life and works of the writer and artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink drawings

  • Richard Hawkins: Potentialities

    Bringing together early religious imagery, ritual performance, painting and AI, Hawkins taps into the psychosexual spookiness of creativity itself

  • Reflections. Picasso x Barceló

    Ceramics by Picasso are juxtaposed with works by Miquel Barcelo, one of Spain’s leading contemporary artists, along with archaeological pieces from the Museo de Almería’s collection, integrating past, present and future into a seamless wonder

  • Jerwood / Photoworks Awards 5

    Award winners Roman Manfredi and Sayuri Ichida bring lost and overlooked communities into view, with Manfredi exploring the history of gender diversity in Neapolitan culture and Ichida looking at Japan’s rapid population decline

  • Dom Sylvester Houédard: dsh* and EE Vonna-Michell – Henri Chopin: To Ray the Rays**

    This exhibition draws together the concrete typestracts of Houédard with a stunning film by Henri Chopin and EE Vonna-Michell, being shown for the first time in England, that together are an enthralling offer

  • Proximities

    Organised in conjunction with the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, this extensive exhibition at Seoul Museum of Art introduces contemporary art from the UAE to South Korea

  • Monuments

    What characterises a monument? Mass? Authority? Glory? And what should be its destiny? If inspiring, perpetuity? If offending, removal? As witnessed here, removal, applied to a likeness, is a loaded word. So is likeness. With the exception of the Washington…

  • Still Glasgow

    Including works by Bert Hardy and Oscar Marzaroli to Alan Dimmick and Iseult Timmermans, this exhibition spotlights the Scottish city and its photography from the 1940s to the present, but above all it is a record of the people who…

  • Kira Freije: Unspeak the Chorus

    Freije has created 26 new works for this show, life-size figures imbued with a rich and often warm humanity that draw you in but whose ambiguities defy singular readings