ART: THE FIVE BEST SHOWS IN LONDON
1
Disasters of War Imperial War Museum
Three ages of European war through the etchings of Jaques Callot, Goya and Otto Dix. Serial flashes of horror, mass-executions, madness and blood everywhere. To 26 Sep
2
Van Dyck Royal Academy
Elegant, melancholy and short-lived portraitist to countless burghers, nobles and royals, court painter to Charles . To 3 Dec
3
Jane and Louise Wilson Serpentine Gallery
A mini-retro for the Turner-shortlisted twins, specialists in accessing the institutes of power, with atmospheric room-scale video installations, photographs, and themselves as stalking presences. To 3 Oct
4
Morandi & His Time Estorick Collection
Mr Twentieth-Century still-life: 9 of his table-top paintings, with the close and nervous families of bottles, jugs and pots. To 9 Sept
5
Francesca Woodman Photographers Gallery
A woman hiding: US photographer, who died at 22, flits through her pictures, there and not there, sometimes masked, in one disguised as wallpaper. To 25 Sep
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