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As painting arguably reached its evolutionary peaks across the middle third of the twentieth century.

Read our pick of the best London art exhibitions to see this month, from the stunning visuals at Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition 2025 to Ed Atkins at Tate Britain.

Tabish Khan, the @LondonArtCritic, picks his top 5 art exhibitions to see in London in mid – April. Check out last week’s top 5 if you’re after more shows to visit.

Read our pick of the best London art exhibitions to see this month, from Tunga at Lisson Gallery to political bricks at the Wellcome Collection, and the continuing The Face Magazine retrospective at The National Portrait Gallery.

In ‘Barbara Hepworth: Strings’, various Hepworth sculptures will be exhibited in public for the first time, at Piano Nobile, London.

For the February 2025 Art Diary, I begin with exhibitions by artists I’ve followed and whose work I’ve written about. These include Peter Howson, Jonathan Anderson, Barbara Hepworth and Theaster Gates.

Augustus John was a star around whom many significant artists were in orbit. This enlightening exhibition paints a lively picture of their interface.

The Treasure House Fair is an enjoyable chance to escape the world’s problems. Or is it? Strolling round the 70 stands of art, design and curiosity, I found many items of interest referred to conflict or trouble…

Brought together again after five decades, a series of landscapes by the Scots-Irish artist William Crozier (1930-2011) will be displayed at Piano Nobile at the start of 2024, showcasing why he became one of the leading artists of the post-war generation.

The London-based American painter’s reputation has been clouded by an extraordinary 1990s media spat that he believed caused the death of his wife. But Kitaj led the way for greats like Lucian Freud and Hockney.

Plus: a mini-retrospective at Piano Nobile is a reminder of how exceptional an artist R.B. Kitaj was.

In Kitaj’s work, the whole is an extravagant layering of several images into one.

Piano Nobile, London The weight of history hovers over this American postwar figurative artist who settled in the UK, with an increasing focus on the experience of Jews.

Painting has been declared dead many times as it has reeled under the double-barrelled attack of photography and conceptual art.

Piano Nobile was established by Dr Robert Travers in 1985, and has operated in its Holland Park location for over twenty years, latterly in two spaces either side of Portland Road.