Five of the best… new art shows

Mona Hatoum | Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty And Rebellion | Georg Baselitz | Alberto Giacometti And Yves Klein | Keith Coventry

You can’t help but admire Hatoum’s guts, especially when her 1994 video installation Corps Etranger plunges you into an endoscopic voyage through her insides. As an artist, she is a surreal excavator of trauma and anguish, making the personal political. Everyday objects become unfamiliar – playground swings mutate into symbols of war and the earth sizzles with menace. This is a well-deserved retrospective for a thoughtful provocateur.

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