ART: THE FIVE BEST SHOWS IN LONDON
Chris Ofili Serpentine Gallery
The Turner Prize favourite, this painter is an upbeat original, his surfaces dense and decorative, with swirls of dots, eyes, Afros and black icons, and incorporating mutant balls of elephant dung. To 1 Nov
Speed Whitechapel Gallery
Modern time and fast art, from Sickert to Pollock to Crash, taking in Beuys, Duchamp and Delaunay on the way, and showing Leger's film, Ballet Mecanique. To 22 Nov
Gerhard Richter Anthony d'Offay
Chunky show of new work by the German heavyweight painter who moves from smeared abstracts to meticulously blurred photo-based images in a block-booking of all four d'Offay spaces. To 22 Oct
Pieter de Hooch Dulwich Picture Gallery
The domestic chronicler of 17th-century Delft. De Hooch's interiors welcome the stranger in. He delights in detail and perspectival challenges, picturing houses like magic boxes. To 15 Nov
Balla & Futurist Italy Estorick Collection
Giacomo Balla was at the heart of the Futurist aesthetic - here 23 dynamic abstract canvases from the National Gallery in Rome explore the movement and its love of planes, trains and automobiles. To 13 Dec
... AND BEYOND
Callum Innes and Ellen Gallagher IKON Gallery, Birmingham
Two abstract painters show solo. The Scot Innes uses vivid colour; Gallagher builds complex patterns from cartoon-like racial signifiers. To 22 Nov
Willie Doherty Tate Liverpool
Top Irish artist creates an iconography of terror - the roadblock and the burnt-out car. To 4 Oct
Disasters of War Brighton Museum
"I saw this" - three ages of European war through the etchings of Jaques Callot, Goya and Otto Dix. Black-and-white visions from the blackest of times; mass executions and blood everywhere. To 4 Oct
Peter Doig & Udomsak Krisanamis Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Doig's sizzling, curdling, overloaded landscapes alternate with Krisanamis's twinkling surfaces and noodle collages. To 18 Oct
Renaissance to Impressionism Southampton City Art Gallery
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