Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
Tag: Modernism
Madonna sells Fernand Léger’s modern material girls
The singer has sold a painting by Léger to fund girl’s education: the work’s modern beauty is a paean to strong women
Who’d steal an empty, pretentious Dalí?
The dangerous power of celebrity, so well understood by the Spanish artist, may be behind a fashion PR’s alleged theft
Paul Cézanne: founding father of modern art
Look closely at the French artist’s abstract, pixellated works and the seeds of modernism come into focus
Matthew Houlding: The Oceanic
Everyone has their own history within the bigger picture. I tend to use things or appropriate things, fit them to my own imagination and personal history.
Mike Kelley: the nonconformist’s whole life is here
Magic carpets, Superman, and lewd encounters with barbers: Kelley’s life’s work is on show at this Amsterdam retrospective – and his rancid humour shines through
The Jonas Mekas effect and Mariko Mori’s seasonal show – the week in art
Cinema at London’s Serpentine, Jim Shaw’s imagination and Kevin Harman’s subversive portraiture – all in your weekly art dispatch
Good takes on evil at Berlin’s Museum of Things
Plain pots and pans face off against kitsch cups in this German collection of objects showcasing the Deutscher Werkbund’s quest for ‘good form’
Bauhaus: a blueprint for the future
On the eve of a Barbican retrospective, Rowan Moore explores the enduring appeal and influence of the Bauhaus school
Dutch artist’s works found in British warehouse
Over 400 stolen artworks by celebrated 20th-century expressionist painter Karel Appel discovered by storage firm
Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 – review
Royal Academy, London
The people’s painters: what makes a work of art popular?
Monet, Van Gogh, and Klimt are the favourite artists among virtual art collectors. But before you turn your nose up at these obvious choices, let’s consider their mass appeal