Two nightmarish exhibitions you shouldn't miss

The Horror Show, Somerset House review ★★★★★

What does an artwork featuring conjoined triplets by Jake and Dinos Chapman, a Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher and a screenplay of A Clockwork Orange have in common? They are all part of Somerset House’s Horror Show exhibition, a broad-ranging exhibition that takes the horror genre as its starting point before exploring how it has influenced creative rebellion over the last 50 years.

Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery ★★★★★

In a digital age that bombards us with content and desensitises our reactions to what we see, ceramics is a link between sight and touch that's seeing a recent surge of interest from both artists and the general public, an increasing number of whom are picking up pottery as a pastime.

The Hayward Gallery’s new exhibition, Strange Clay, challenges our preconceived ideas of ceramics, curating a range of eccentric sculptures, installations and figures which have been created by several generations of makers, each pushing the boundaries of a medium we think we know.