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# Top 10 art exhibitions of the week
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## The best art exhibitions on now across the UK - Alastair Sooke and Richard
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Dorment's pick of the week.
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![Woman Wearing a Mantle Over Her Head and Shoulders, c. 1718-19
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Woman Wearing a Mantle Over Her Head and Shoulders, c. 1718-19 Photo: Jean-
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Antoine Watteau
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![Three Studies of a Young Girl Wearing a Hat c.1716][2]
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Three Studies of a Young Girl Wearing a Hat c.1716 Photo: Jean-Antoine Watteau
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![Three Studies of Soldiers Holding Guns, 1715][3]
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Three Studies of Soldiers Holding Guns, 1715 Photo: Jean-Antoine Watteau
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10:48AM BST 20 May 2011
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[Comments][4]
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[**See our regularly updated slide show of pictures from current and
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forthcoming exhibitions **][5]
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**1. [Paul Graham][6] | Whitechapel Gallery; until 19 Jun**
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In 1981, the British photographer Paul Graham set off on a journey, taking
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pictures as he went. He began outside the Bank of England in the City of
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London, and followed the A1 as it unfurled north.
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Seventeen photographs from the series can be seen in the Whitechapel Gallery's
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new retrospective of Graham's work - and, like most of the pictures in the
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show, I loved every one.
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## Related Articles
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* [Winning ways with watercolour][7]
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15 May 2011
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**2. [Dutch Landscapes][8] | Queen's Gallery until October 9**
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The Royal Collection's new exhibition offers a reminder that art from the
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Netherlands hasn't always found favour in Britain. Horace Walpole, the 18th-
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century antiquarian and man of letters, deplored Dutch artists as "drudging
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Mimics of Nature's most uncomely coarsenesses".
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One of the chief pleasures of this exhibition is the close observation of
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everyday life by masters such as Philips Wouwermans and Aelbert Cuyp. There
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are several scenes of merrymaking, replete with people boozing, smoking,
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swaggering and dancing. There are country fairs abuzz with activity, as well
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as busy vistas of agricultural labour.
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**3. [Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape][9] | Tate Modern until September 11**
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Along with Picasso and Dali, the great Catalan modernist Joan Miro belongs to
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a triumvirate of Spaniards who dominated 20th-century art. The exhibition
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covers six decades. There are early masterpieces such as The Farm (1921-22),
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once owned by Ernest Hemingway.
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Look at the mischievous, misshapen creatures that crowd the wonderful early
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paintings of his maturity. They are dredged from a private place, a realm of
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terror as well as exultation in which reality seems heinously unstable.
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4. [**Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want**][10]** | Hayward Gallery; until 29
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Aug**
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Emin has shared with us graphic details of her abortion, her alcoholism and
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her inability to find love or have a child. Her solipsistic obsession with her
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own trials and tribulations becomes a strength - for the first time - in this
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show. Carefully selected and beautifully installed, the exhibition looks at
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Emin's whole life as a performance, a soap opera in real time, like The Truman
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Show.
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5. [**Antoine Watteau**][11]** | Royal Academy and Wallace Collection; until 5
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June **
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Watteau's influence on French art during the 18th century and beyond was
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profound. His chief contribution to art history was the invention of a
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strange, mercurial genre known as the fete galante, defined in a contemporary
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dictionary as "festivities by decent folk".
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The Wallace Collection in London has some of the finest examples. To
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complement the superb exhibition of his sketches at the Royal Academy, all
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eight of their canvases, plus two loans, are being shown in the West Gallery
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at the Wallace Collection's home, Hertford House in west London.
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6. [**Ai Wei Wei: Zodiac Heads**][12]** | Somerset House; until 26 June **
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In a semi-circle behind the fountains at Somerset House he's arranged 12
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oversized bronze heads of animals, each about 4ft high and weighing about
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800lb, and each representing a sign of the Chinese zodiac - rat, tiger, rabbit
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goat, pig and so on.
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The heads are inspired by the water-spouting originals that adorned an 18th-
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century fountain-clock commissioned by the Emperor Qianlong for his summer
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pavilion outside Beijing.
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7. [**The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement**][13]** | Royal Academy of
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Arts, London W1 (020 7300 8000), until June 5**
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Though ridiculed in Punch cartoons, the Aesthetic movement was a serious
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philosophical view that placed aesthetic values to the front of human
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experience. The V&A's unforgettable exhibition at last does justice to the
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artists, designers and architects.
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8. [**Jan Gossaert**][14]** | National Gallery; until 30 May **
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Gossaert's ability to humanise characters from the Bible and mythology is of a
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piece with the way he was able to enter imaginatively into the lives of the
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men, women and children whose portraits he painted. His double portrait of an
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elderly couple, to take an obvious example, is as harrowing a depiction of old
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age as I know in art, in which the artist misses no opportunity to chronicle
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the indignity of decrepitude.
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9. [**Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World**][15]** | British Museum;
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until July 3**
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Thanks to men who risked their lives for art, some of Afghanistan's most
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prized relics are on show, which reveal the country's ancient culture, its
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immense fragility and its remarkable place in world history.
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As curator Dr St John Simpson puts it: "To me, what these objects speak of is
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the world of the steppe. These are nomads who are migrating possibly on a
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seasonal basis. The finds from Tillya Tepe open up the wealth of these nomads.
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These are all personal possessions, made to be worn on the saddle. This whole
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idea of personal ornaments stitched onto cloth is a steppe tradition, so too
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is the lavish use of turquoise."
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10. [**Manet, the Man who Invented Modern Art**][16]** | Musee d'Orsay, Paris,
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[www.musee-orsay.fr][17], until July 3 **
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A hugely enjoyable show which highlights Manet's ability to make ordinary
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things beautiful simply by the way he painted them. He could turn a pile of
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discarded clothing or a few dead fish into a work of art that sends a shiver
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down your spine.
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