The Independent Recommends: The Five Best Shows

Rembrandt by Himself (National Gallery, London)

From Wednesday: the self-portraits. The first and most searching autobiography in paint. The great pictorial statements of honesty and mortality, of the human depths. Thirty paintings. From Wed to 5 Sept

Morandi and His Time (Estorick Collection, London)

Mr Twentieth-Century Still Life: 19 of his table-top pictures, with their close but tense families of bottles, jugs and pots - plus work by contemporaries. To 19 Sept

New Art for a New Era (Barbican Gallery, London)

Russian Avant-Garde paintings, from the Bolshevik government's official modern art collection, organised by Malevich while political and artistic revolutions were briefly in step. To 27 Jun

ESP (IKON Gallery, Birmingham)

Contemporary artists investigate the paranormal in this weird group show (right), including Susan Hiller's wonderful video installation about the psychic powers of children. To 13 Jun

Shape of the Century (Salisbury Festival)

One hundred years of British sculpture - and they're all here: Epstein, Gill, Moore, Hepworth, Caro, Frink, Long, Kapoor, Gormley, Whiteread. To 19 Aug