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Robert Mapplethorpe and Sam Wagstaff
The post-war US art scene takes centre stage this week at a short season of documentaries at the ICA named ‘Shoot Yr Idols’
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Cy Twombly and Gerhard Richter vie for supremacy at Tate Modern for the title of greatest living painter
Street art is best appreciated in the Shoreditch/Hoxton borders, where new paintings, stencils and flyposters go up constantly, often under cover of darkness. Download our walking tour
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Until Sat Sep 13, Union Ewer Street
Artists including Doug Fishbone, Matt O'Dell and Guy Richards Smit look at the place of disaster in the collective imagination.
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Until Sun Sep 7, Royal Academy of Arts
'The Poetry of Silence', retrospective featuring 60 paintings by the Danish artist (1864-1916) from museums and private collections
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Until Sun Sep 14, Camden Arts Centre
Chain-smoking Belgian girls poke fun at Godard, while Akerman tackles Holocaust ghosts and hotel lobbies with panache
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Until Sat Sep 6, White Cube Mason's Yard
'Lesser Panda', new abstract paintings.
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Until Sun Aug 31, The Wapping Project
Sculpture by a recent Goldsmiths graduate.
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Until Sun Aug 31, Tate Modern
Photographic portraiture from cities around the world, taken in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by among others, Diane Arbus, Walker Evans and...
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Until Sun Sep 14, Campbell Works
'My Giant Colouring Book', a Hayward Touring exhibition of the Chapman's macabre images based loosely on join-the-dots drawings from children's picture books
From pavilions in parks to the outside walls of Tate Modern, here's our pick of the innovative...
All the artist's thematic strands are laid out here, beginning with an early, idyllic 'Cowboy'...
Major retrospective of paintings, drawings and sculpture.
Five hundred years of art on the subject, with work by Raphael, Cranach, Vermeer, Chagall,...
Two paintings from 1986 and 1988.
Photographs of rock stars who died at the age of 27.
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Until Sun Sep 14, Photographers' Gallery
What does fashion see, when it gazes into the mirror? Loveliness & luxury, or neurosis: the last big thing, the next has-been?
Designed by Frank Gehry this year's pavilion is a steel and timber structure hosting a series...
Exhibition of the Courtauld's entire Cézanne collection as part of the institute's...
Prints by Milton Avery, Edward Hopper, David Smith, Joan Mitchell and many other American...
The life of Roman Emperor Hadrian (117-138AD) explored through artefacts relating to his life...
Work by Italy's Divisionist painters, who from 1891-1910 depicted landscapes, symbolist...
This year's finalists plus work by last year's BP Travel Award winner.
Exhibition charting the career of the Dutch fashion designers in the context of a specially...
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