BP Portrait Award 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery, 14th June to 23rd September 2018

An Angel at my Table by Miriam Escofet is a worthy winner of the BP Portrait Award for 2018. But all is not what it seems in this painting. There are clues that something else is going on. Why is the statuette blurred and the tea plate have a double image? And who is the second cup meant for? To my eye, this is a painting with a hidden narrative that has so far gone unremarked.

Rodin and the art of ancient Greece at The British Museum, 26th April to 29th July 2018

Wow, this is good! Rodin and the art of ancient Greece at the British Museum is an eye-pleasing, myth-busting, brain-tickling stonker of a show. By focusing on the creative relationship between Rodin and Pheidias, this brilliantly conceived and designed show offers a retrospective of Rodin’s most iconic pieces and a fresh look at the Parthenon statues. But in doing so, it raises questions about authenticity and artifice, production and reproduction, pathos and bathos. Again wow!