William Middleton's ‘Double Vision’ is a scrupulously detailed biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil and a must read. The book chronicles the Menil's many cultural achievements and argues for their inspiring belief in the necessity of art for the common good and the crucial role that patrons play in shaping the art world.

The National Portrait Gallery traces the Black figure throughout portraiture with its spring exhibition, ‘The Time is Always Now: Artists Refframe the Black Figure’. Curator Ekow Eshun unites works from 22 African diasporic artists, including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Amy Sherald to highlight the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life and survey the presence of the Black figure in Western art history – socially, psychologically and culturally.

The Courtauld Gallery brings together a series of hauntingly beautiful, large-scale drawings by Frank Auerbach in their exhibition ‘Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads’. The works were made in the 1950s and ’60s, when Auerbach produced a series of large-scale porrtraits of friends and relatives, including serial sitters Stella West and Gerda Boehm, rendered almost exclusively in obsessively worked black and white strokes, with only sparing touches of coloured chalk giving the portraits a raw, vital power.

David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new and recent work by renowned German artist Gerhard Richter in London, following the artist’s recent debut at David Zwirner in New York in spring of 2023. The considered exhibition expands upon Richter’s sustained inquiry into the fixity of perception and reaffirms his unwavering commitment to the formal and conceptual possibilities of abstraction.

Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. at Serpentine South is Kruger’s first solo institutional show in London in over twenty years. The exhibition features installations alongside moving image works and multiple soundscapes and hosts the UK premiere of Untitled (No Comment) (2020). This immersive three-channel video installation explores contemporary modes of creating and consuming content online. 

David Zwirner presents new large-scale paintings and sculptures by Dana Schutz in 'Jupiter's Lottery' at 525 and 533 West 19th Street in New York. The exhibition, painted wet-on-wet, is ambitious in scale and complexity, depicting allegorical scenes in which often grotesque characters negotiate the human predicament. Likewise, the sculptures modeled in clay before being cast in bronze, give three-dimensional, gestural form to Schutz's imagined characters and scenes.

Skarstedt's group exhibition 'Still Life' brings together revolutionary works by John Chamberlain, George Condo, Eric Fischl, Isa Genzken, Hans Josephsohn, Martin Kippenberger, Bruce Nauman, Thomas Schütte, Rebecca Warren and Franz West. The show celebrates the versatility of sculpture to unite anthropomorphic forms with tongue-in-cheek interjections.

The Bourse de Commerce offers a new perspective on the works of Mike Kelley, presenting various bodies of work and immersive environments, including the spectacular Kandors, in this extensive and mesmerising retrospective. The exhibition was organised by the Tate Modern, London, K21 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm in collaboration with the Pinault Collection and will tour to each of these venues.