Art
Mixing It Up: Painting Today
Thirty-one British-based cross-generational painters feels too many for getting much of a handle on anyone’s work in this survey of both better and lesser-known artists. All play with the medium, and with what figurative painting can be, how it slides into abstraction and fantasy and back again, and what it can describe. AS
Hayward Gallery, London, 9 September-12 December
Photo London
Having been postponed from early summer, the sixth edition of Photo London finally goes ahead with exhibitions, events (in-person and online), and works on display from 91 galleries from 17 countries. Highlights include the UK premiere of Lands of Dreams by Shirin Neshat, this year’s recipient of the Master of Photography award, and Close Enough, a Robert Capa retrospective. SO’H
Somerset House, London, 9-28 September.
Turner prize
In Coventry for the first time, as part of the city’s UK year of culture, the post-pandemic shortlist consists entirely of artist collectives from London, Belfast, Hastings and Cardiff, all using different kinds of social engagement –…
