Art: The Five Best Shows In London

Tom Lubbock
Saturday 21 November 1998 00:02 GMT
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1

Louise Bourgeois Serpentine Gallery

Veteran feminist-surrealist sculptress, still a leading light at 87, shows new installations in which a giant mother/ spider presides over elaborate images of spin and weave, restore and decay. To 0 Jan

2

Speed Whitechapel Gallery

Modern time and fast art, from Sickert to Pollock to Crash, via Beuys, Duchamp, Delaunay, and showing Leger's film, Ballet Mecanique. Ends tomorrow

3

Mirror Image National Gallery

A magpie's delight - Jonathan Miller curates a show of mirrors and shiny surfaces in painting, with virtuoso reflections from Van Eyck's The Arnolfini Marriage to Helen Chadwick's Vanitas. To 3 Dec

4

Life? Or Theatre? Royal Academy

First UK showing of Charlotte Salomon's life in pictures, with 780 raw gouaches telling the story of the life of a German Jew before Auschwitz. To 7 Jan

5

Aubrey Beardsley Victoria & Albert Museum

Displaying the short, glittering life of the aesthete and illustrator, with his sinuous and florid line. Drawings, prints and posters. To 0 Jan

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