Modern Couples – art, intimacy and the Avant-garde
Exhibition illuminating the lives of famous creative couples of the early twentieth century, including Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Alma and Gustav Mahler and Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso.
Until 27th January at The Barbican
Klimt/Schiele – Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna
The Royal Academy celebrates the centenary of the deaths of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele by putting some of their rarest masterpieces on display – look out for delicate sketch work, devastating self-portraits and exquisite flights of eroticism.
Until 3rd February at the Royal Academy
Comedy Genius
Season of great comic films. Revisit classics like Some Like It Hot, The Life of Brian and Airplane!
Staging Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock’s work was premiered in the UK at the Whitechapel Gallery. Sixty years on, his 1948 masterpiece Summertime 9A returns to East London, exhibited alongside rare archival material including an exclusive interview with Pollock.
Until 24th March at The Whitechapel Gallery
Andy Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi / I want to be a machine
This exhibition dramatises Warhol’s and Paolozzi’s obsession with the changing status of art in an era of mass marketing and ever-expanding consumerism.
Until 2nd June at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
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