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Moon/King: The Work and Friendship of Phillip King and Jeremy Moon – 1956 to 1973

The pair met as students at Cambridge and remained friends until Moon’s death at the age of 39. This vibrant and colourful exhibition makes clear the influence they had on one another’s work
The Korean Moment

A flurry of museum and gallery exhibitions flags a surge of interest in Korean art. The most compelling is the Hammer Museum’s Only the Young
Harold Cohen: AARON

Through paintings, works on paper and projections, this exhibition traces the evolution of AARON, the earliest artificial intelligence (AI) program for creating art, conceived by the pioneering British painter Harold Cohen
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

Spanning seven decades of the artist’s groundbreaking work, from the 1950s to now, some done with John Lennon, the takeaway message is the hope that perhaps world peace really is possible
These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture

In this joyous and eccentric show, Hoyland’s jaunty ceramic sculptures are shown alongside equally playful sculptures from contemporary artists including Hew Locke and Phyllida Barlow
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

The 50 artists in this formidable show have all used textiles to tell powerful stories of resistance to social, political and ecological ills
Charles Holden’s Master Plan: Building the Bloomsbury Campus* and Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Itinerant Archive**

Spanning master plans and covert models, these two exhibitions conjure up a point in the early 1930s when flows of international modernism infiltrated the British academic and political establishment
Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads

Repeatedly drawing the same sitters from among his circle of close friends, Auerbach conveys his subjects with truth, tenderness and empathy, getting to the very heart of them
Jacqueline Poncelet: In the Making

After years of resistance, Poncelet has facilitated a full retrospective of 50 years of her work. Her inventiveness, material eclecticism and chromatic intelligence make her very much an artist for these times
When Forms Come Alive

The Hayward Gallery’s spring exhibition is an effervescent playground of kinetically inclined sculpture that captures the drifting, mushrooming and vibrating movements of the natural world