Phyllida Barlow: Cul De Sac Now until 10 Jun – Royal Academy of Arts www.royalacademy.org.uk Housed across three rooms, these new sculptures have one thing in common: they’re massive! Jumbo-sized constructions that loom over humans the same way chunks of ancient monuments in the British Museum reduce everyone who walks past them to Borrower-size. Unlike the flawless stonemasonry and marble of the RA’s Burlington House, Barlow creates her art from solid concrete blocks, gnarled old wood, gloomy grey metal and bumpy bits of gauze slathered in paint.
Lee Krasner: Living Colour Now until 01 Sep – Barbican Centre www.barbican.org.uk As the title suggests, one reason for buying a ticket is to check out Krasner's vivid, large-scale canvases that explode in fireworks of colour. But that’s not all as you'll also be able to see her superb charcoal drawings and some early self-portraits.
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing Now until 13 Oct – The Queen's Gallery www.rct.uk
Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, this exhibition will bring together more than 200 of the Renaissance master's greatest drawings in the Royal Collection, forming the largest exhibition of his work in over 65 years. With the drawings having been grouped together since the artist’s death in 1519, the collection will provide an unparalleled insight into the workings of Leonardo's mind and reflect the full range of his interests, including painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, engineering, cartography, geology and botany
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