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  • Ruth Orkin: Women

    She photographed celebrities such as Lauren Bacall and Doris Day and worked for Life magazine and Look, but she has remained largely unknown in Europe. This gem of an exhibition aims to change that

  • William Pope.L: ‘There should be a porosity to the work when you’re building it, envisioning it’

    At the opening of Hospital at the South London Gallery, his first major institutional UK show since 2011, the US artist talked about the themes of care and precarity in his work. With his sudden death just weeks later, in…

  • Belles Choses. Art Nouveau Around 1900

    The Bröhan-Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary with this exhibition looking at French and Belgian Art Nouveau, with some items that have previously never been shown in public

  • Self-Determination: A Global Perspective

    Numerous new nations sprang up after the first world war. This titanic exhibition explores the art that made them, exploding myths along the way

  • Don Van Vliet: Standing on One Hand

    An exhibition of oil paintings by the artist formerly known as Captain Beefheart has a strange allure, as long as you don’t think too hard

  • Jaeeun Choi: La Vita Nuova

    With projects including plans to drop seed bombs on Korea to studying what happens to paper if you bury it for years, this retrospective looks back over Choi’s 40-year career and her passion for nature and ecology

  • Stepping Softly on the Earth

    Twenty artists, mostly non-western and indigenous, consider how dam projects, diamond mining, monoculture and other human interventions have affected their lands and way of life

  • Shezad Dawood: Leviathan

    The gothic majesty of Salisbury Cathedral provides a suitable home for Dawood’s apocalyptic cycle

  • Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light

    Strong, single-minded and uncompromising, Lim made a significant contribution to 20th-century British sculpture, but her work has been sadly overlooked since her death. This major museum show is a chance to put that right

  • Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed

    The Florentine painter’s life was sadly short, but his technical virtuosity shines through in the few works in his first monographic exhibition