Michael Andrews and Matisse: this week’s best UK exhibitions

Flourishes of postmodern storytelling and cutouts from the French great. Plus: Tales From Ovid’s Metamorphoses, The New Line and William Kentridge And Vivienne Koorland

A poetic eye for reality and flourishes of postmodern storytelling make Michael Andrews one of the most interesting, important British painters of the 20th century. Hopefully, this exhibition of some of his most haunting paintings will start a fashion for his admirable ways of seeing. It includes his eerie painting of a balloon’s shadow crossing a beach, which I loved long before I’d heard of him because it was on the cover of a Penguin poetry collection. But that’s Andrews: an artist you possibly know better than you think. And if you don’t, this is a chance to climb aboard.
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, W1, Friday 20 Jan to Saturday 25 Mar

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