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London exhibitions: April highlights

By CW Contributor on 28/3/2017

Frida Kahlo meets Rembrandt at Saatchi Selfies, Marc Quinn comes to the Soane and Queer Art at the Tate: these are the best London exhibitions, April 2017

The Roof Garden Commission: Cornelia Parker, Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) , 2016 Installation view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Photography by Hyla Skopitz, The Photograph Studio, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Copyright 2016.

Cornelia Parker, Frith Street Gallery

Discover a new series of video works from one of our greatest artists at this Cornelia Parker 2017 exhibition – and there's not an exploding shed in sight

WHEN

28 Apr 2017 – 21 Jun 2017, Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Friday 10am-6pm; Saturday 11am-5pm, and by appointment

WHERE

48 Frith Street
W1D 4SF

Detail: Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait With Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940 Courtesy Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust,Mexico, D.F. / DACS / Harry RansomCenter, The University of Texas at Austin

From Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery

Love it or loathe it, you're getting the world's first selfie exhibition: Saatchi traces the act of self-portraiture, from the Old Masters to Instagram

WHEN

31 Mar 2017 – 30 May 2017, Ten til 6 daily

WHERE

Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London, SW3 4RY

Bathing, Duncan Grant, 1911, © Tate Gay exhibition Queer Art London

Queer Art, Tate Britain

Tate Queer Art: one of the first LGBT exhibitions London has seen in a major museum. We'll see work from Bloomsbury darlings Duncan Grant and Dora Carrington, Edwardian portraitist John Singer Sargent and the tormented Keith Vaughan

WHEN

05 Apr 2017 – 01 Oct 2017, 10.00–18.00 daily

WHERE

Tate Britain
Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG

Marc Quinn, 'Sculpture from the series "Drawn from Life" (detail)', 2016. Courtesy and © Marc Quinn studio.

Marc Quinn: Drawn from Life, Sir John Soane's Museum

YBA meets Sir John Soane: works by Marc Quinn, who sculpted his frozen blood, come to the historic museum in Lincoln's Inn for Drawn for Life

WHEN

28 Mar 2017 – 23 Sep 2017, Tues - Sat: 10am - 5pm, Last entry at 4:30pm, Sun - Mon: Closed

WHERE

Sir John Soane’s Museum
13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2A 3BP

Anish Kapoor exhibition, Lisson Gallery

One of our most prominent artists, sculptor Anish Kapoor, returns to the Lisson Gallery for a brand new show

WHEN

25 Mar 2017 – 09 May 2017, Open daily 10am–6pm, 11am–5pm om Sunda, Closed Monday 10am–6pm Tuesday 10am–6pm

WHERE

Lisson Gallery
52-54 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA

London exhibitions: April highlights

Frida Kahlo meets Rembrandt at Saatchi Selfies, Marc Quinn comes to the Soane and Queer Art at the Tate: these are the best London exhibitions, April 2017

Cornelia Parker, Frith Street Gallery

From Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery

Queer Art, Tate Britain

Marc Quinn: Drawn from Life, Sir John Soane's Museum

Anish Kapoor exhibition, Lisson Gallery

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