FIVE BEST Exhibitions

Hadrian

(BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON)

The life, loves and legacy of the emperor who transformed the character of the Roman world are celebrated with sculptures and artefacts in bronze and marble.

(020-7323 8181) to 26 Oct

Psycho Buildings

(HAYWARD GALLERY, LONDON)

Artists do fantasy architectural installations, and despite the "Psycho" billing, it's an extremely child-pleasing summer-months show. Rachel Whiteread features.

(0870 380 0400) to Mon

Cy Twombly

(TATE MODERN, LONDON)

Burning colours, gnarled splurges, shimmering streaks, mythic resonance by an American artist doing romantic gestural painting.

(020-7887 8888) to 14 Sept

Ben Nicholson

(ABBOT HALL, KENDAL)

Famed for his pure and wiry-lined abstractions, Ben Nicholson appears here as an artist of place, attached to particular areas of England.

(01539 722464) to 20 Sept

Roger Hilton

(KETTLES YARD, CAMBRIDGE)

On the borderline of abstraction, figuration and alcoholism: images by the post-war British painter, with wild rhythms and raw colours.

(01223 352124) to 21 Sept

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