FT Best ofExhibitions in London and beyondFT critics review this season’s crop of visual arts showsThe long shadow of war: Aftermath at Tate BritainAn impressive show documents the destructive impact of the first world war through artists’ eyesChiharu Shiota’s high-wire act at Yorkshire Sculpture ParkA haunting childhood memory is the key to the artist’s intricate, uplifting piano installationPowerhouse festival of northern artTwo Gateshead shows precede a wave of exhibitions and performances across the north-east of EnglandDisappear Here, RIBA, London — a perceptive show about perspectiveAn exhibition that bristles with unexpected gems1932, Picasso’s year of wondersTate Modern’s stellar show displays work made by the great master, in thrall to his new lover, during a single yearTricks of the light: Monet & Architecture at the National Gallery, LondonA rapturous show puts the great Impressionist’s work in an unusual perspectiveMore from this SeriesJoan Jonas at Tate Modern — chronicle of a shape-shifter and shamanThe London gallery is staging a long-overdue show of work by the multi-disciplinary American artistAnthea Hamilton: on and off the Duveen Galleries pedestalTate Britain’s annual sculpture commission is given a clever, playful twist by the artistA different type of politics at the Design Museum, LondonHope to Nope is an engaging and timely exhibition about activist and political graphicsAll Too Human : Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life — unmissable but infuriatingA searching survey of 20th-century life painting omits some of its greatest practitioners
