Left, Ingres’s Study for La Grande Odalisque at the Courtauld Gallery. Right, Kandinsky’s Circles in a Circle at the Barbican
Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist
Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace,
until 7th October
Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery
Somerset House, until 9th September
Bauhaus: Art as Life
Barbican Art Gallery, until 12th August
Yoko Ono: To the Light
Serpentine Gallery, until 9th September
Boats and more boats, the lycra’d body beautiful, sport and more sport: what lurks behind the Jubilee and Olympics in London to challenge the eye and tax the intellect? Three extraordinary exhibitions, each extraordinary for parallel reasons. Each leads us more deeply into the heart of a teeming globe than any royal flotilla or running race could. A fourth show, by a woman whom the late 1960s made globally celebrated for reasons that had nothing to do with visual art, is like a Dalí-esque moustache-curlicue






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