Francesca Albini

Tate Britain, 2 November 2017 – 7 May 2018 “France! what horror! to see a star fade in the heavens!/ I feel the lugubrious ascent of disgrace./ Dismal anguish! one curse falls, a new one rises.” wrote Victor Hugo in his series of poems entitled L'Année terrible. The Terrible Year, 1870-1871, saw two sieges of Paris, the rise and fall of the Commune, the civil war, the massacring – during what became known as the semaine sanglante, the Bloody Week, some 25,000 Parisians w

Royal Academy - 23 September — 10 December 2017 Jasper Johns has occupied a central position in American contemporary art since the 1950s, yet, at least in this country, we don’t get to see his work very often. The exhibition at the Royal Academy is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to be held in the UK in 40 years: 150 works including paintings, collages, sculpture, drawings and prints, spanning six decades, from the 1950s up to the present time. Artworks