Botticelli, Courtauld Gallery ★★★★★

18 February – 15 May 2016

Woolly devils, angels in boats and rivers of light: discover Botticelli’s delicate and mesmerising illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

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Strange and Familiar, Barbican ★★★★★

Britain through a foreign lens: Martin Parr curates an enormous show considering how international photographers have seen our nation.

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Vogue 100: National Portrait Gallery ★★★★★

11 February - 22 May 2016

Utterly frivolous – and all the better for it. Vogue’s 100^th birthday at the National Portrait gallery is everything we hoped it’d be.

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Water Lilies, 1916-26 (detail) by Claude Monet:\ Photograph: Howard Agriesti, Cleveland Museum of Art

Monet - Matisse, Royal Academy ★★★★★

30 January - 20 April 2015

This stunning exhibition explores the link between gardens and art in the paintings of Monet and his contemporaries. We were smitten.

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Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel ★★★★★

29 January – 15 May 2016

A noisy show, exploring 50 years internet of art is by turns baffling and thrilling. Get down to Whitechapel ASAP.

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© Nikolai Astrup - Courtesy of the Dulwich Picture Gallery

Nikolai Astrup, Dulwich Picture Gallery ★★★★★

5 Feb - 15 May 2016

Glassy lakes, bristling forests and a sprite or two: we were floored by Norway’s favourite painter. It’s worth the trek.

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Alexander Calder, Tate Modern ★★★★★

11 Nov 2015 - 3 Apr 2016

So much more than mobiles: this Alexander Calder retrospective is full of wit, ingenuity and a strange kind of beauty.

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Alec Soth, Science Museum ★★★★★

6 October 2015 - 28 March 2016

Everyone’s fallen in love with photography show Gathered Leaves: Alec Soth's beautiful and melancholy fusion of myth and realism in America.