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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS
Richard Wilson – 20:50
(Saatchi Gallery, London)
Richard Wilson’s epic sump-oil installation gets another outing: a highly reflective sea of the black and sticky, with a channel for the viewer to walk out into the middle.
(020 7811 3080) to 7 May
Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain
(National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh)
“The only man of genius,” said Gainsborough, for “real views from nature.” Sandby also drew grotesque caricatures expressing his hatred of Hogarth.
(0131 624 6200) to 7 Feb
David Hockney
(Nottingham Contemporary)
The gallery launches with a show of 60 works by Hockney from 1960-1968, a period of stylistic ferment, culminating in A Bigger Splash.
(0115 924 2421) to 24 Jan
Eva Hesse
(Camden Arts Centre, London)
In her short life the German-American sculptor created a new language of materials and sensations. Here’s how she worked it out.
(020 7472 5500) to 7 Mar
Miroslav Balka: Topography
(Modern Art Oxford)
The Polish senior shows a multiplicity of small short video films, with a disquieting mix of beauty, violence, ordinariness and fear.
(01865 722733) to 7 Mar
