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Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920
Tate Britain, London, to 13 October
The story of British art since the days of Henry VIII, with women holding ye brushes.
What was it like to be a female artist in Stuart times or the days of Queen Victoria?
Seventeenth-century portraits by Mary Beale and the neoclassical art of Angelica
Kauffman star alongside Welsh modernist Gwen John. JJ

Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works
Baltic, Gateshead, to 16 March 2025
A first major retrospective for the feminist documentary photographer who died aged
only 39 in 1994. Whether captured near her base in Scotland or from around the world
– Soviet Union, China, Israel, Palestine, Zimbabwe – these images not only document
women’s individual lives and work, but wider gender-related issues of health, violence,
inequality and
activism. Nick Wroe

Fragile Beauty:
Photographs
from the Sir Elton John
and David Furnish
Collection
V&A South Kensington,
London, 18 May to 5
January 2025
A lavish show of more
than 300 images created
by a who’s who of the
great photographers
active from 1950 to the
present day. Stunning
depictions of art, fashion
and social history – some
on public display for the
first time – through the
eyes of William
Eggleston, Cindy
Sherman, Robert
Mapplethorpe,
Diane Arbus and
many more. NW

Beatriz Milhazes
Tate St Ives, 25 May to 29
September
One of the most
renowned abstract
painters of today, in a museum dedicated to 20th-century
modernism. St Ives was a haven for British abstract painters,
and their works hang at its Tate with the likes of Rothko. How