Five of the best… new art shows

George Shaw | The British Landscape Tradition: From Gainsborough To Nash | Georg Baselitz | Ettore Spalletti | Dutch Flowers

George Shaw is a fascinating choice as a resident artist at the National Gallery, his scenes of poisoned landscapes now hanging alongside rural scenes by Gainsborough and Constable. Where they used oils and watercolour, Shaw uses Humbrol model aircraft paint. Yet his visions of rancid suburbia have a painterly richness that would have impressed the old masters.

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