FIVE BEST Exhibitions

Cy Twombly

(TATE MODERN, LONDON)

An overview of the past 50 years for an old American artist doing romantic gestural painting: burning colours, gnarled splurges, shimmering streaks, mythic resonance.

(020-7887 8888) to 14 Sept

Radical Light

(NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON)

Segantini, Volpedo, Previati? Discover the Italian Divisionists, who, between 1891 and 1910, linked their pointillist painting techniques with left-wing politics.

(020-7747 2885) to 7 Sept

Gwen John

(BARBER INSTITUTE OF FINE ART, BIRMINGHAM)

The quiet mouse of 20th-century British art. This show focuses on her attachment to the Catholic Church.

(0121-414 7333) to 21 Sept

Colin Self

(PALLANT HOUSE, CHICHESTER)

Graphic satirical fantasies of sex and war by the British Pop artist with the sharpest edge and the neatest pen.

(01243 774 557) to 12 Oct

The Lure of the East

(TATE BRITAIN, LONDON)

Nineteenth-century British painters do the Near and Middle East: William Holman Hunt, Lord Leighton and Richard Dadd and others contemplate turbans, harems and hookahs.

(020-7887 8888)

to 31 Aug

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