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More than 200 items from the Aga Khan's collection of over 1,000 years of Islamic art, one of the world's largest and most valuable, went on show in Germany on Wednesday for the first time.
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The Printmaker's Art Some of the most beautiful and accomplished prints made during the last 500 years, including iconic images by Durer, Blake, Rembrandt, Goya, Piranesi, Hogarth, Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler, and D Y Cameron. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. To 23 May.
- Party!, New Art Gallery, Walsall (Rated 3/ 5 )
- From Floor to Sky, Ambika P3, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
- Kingdom of Ife, British Museum, London
Great Works: Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion (1648), Nicolas Poussin
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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS
Van Doesburg (Tate Modern, London)
Straight lines, simple colours: through art, design and architecture, Theo van Doesburg wanted to reconstruct the world. (020 7887 8888) ) to 16 May
The Dark Monarch
(Towner, Eastbourne)
Emphasising the supernatural vein in British art, including Moore, Sutherland, Jarman, Hirst and Rothschild.
(01323-434670) to 21 Mar
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
Michelangelo’s Dream
(Courtauld Gallery, London)
‘The Dream of Human Life’, his set-piece allegorical drawing, is surrounded by masterful studies of bodies waking, rising, falling, felled...
(020 7845 4600) to 16 May
Ron Mueck
(Manchester City Art Gallery)
Three of his blindingly super-realistic figures: the close ‘Spooning Couple’, the in-your-face ‘Mask’, and the giant, naked, bashful ‘Wild Man’.
(0161 235 8888) to 11 Apr
