Fisun Güner

Lee Krasner died in 1984, just a few months before a major retrospective of her work was due to open at its final stop at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This doesn’t suggest a marginal or neglected figure, at least not in America. Nonetheless, on both sides of the Atlantic, Krasner has always been regarded as an artist on the periphery of Abstract Expressionism, while her husband Jackson Pollock received all the fame and glory. What this brilliant survey demonstrates is that she deserves all the accolades previously heaped on her male counterparts.

So much angst, sickness, death and yes, love, but only of the most magnificently moribund kind. The Norwegian artist was a great graphic artist and print-maker, and the British Museum’s hugely enjoyable exhibition explores the themes and ideas he was drawn to throughout his life, and demonstrates what a thrillingly innovative print-maker he was too.

This small, exquisitely formed exhibition explores the work of Hepworth and Nicholson during the decade in which they first met, became lovers, left their spouses, had three children (triplets), and produced some of their most astonishing work.  Though rarely collaborating, each drew inspiration from the other and the work in this exhibition – paintings, cut-out reliefs and works on paper by Nicholson and carvings by Hepworth – show how a brilliant creative partnership developed in tandem.

This is an impressively wide-ranging exhibition of the Hungarian artist who excelled as an experimental photographer, kinetic sculptor, painter and printmaker, as well as a leading teacher at the Bauhaus. The school was founded 100 years ago in Weimar, and after it was shut down by the Nazis during its final phase in Berlin, Moholy-Nagy left for America, founding a school in Chicago which he called the New Bauhaus. This exhibition celebrates that centenary with one of its most pivotal figures.

This is the first UK presentation of the work of the 64-year-old Colombian artist José Antonio Suárez Londoño. His tiny and meticulous figurative drawings on paper are usually no bigger than a postcard and draw from a incredible range of sources. Here there are a total of 130 pieces. Superb, and rather magical.

Claudette Johnson was a member of the BLK Arts Group in the 1980s, which supported black British artists and organised pivotal exhibitions of their work. This four-decade survey of drawings and paintings of single figures are ostensibly portraits but their real subject is black representation and identity. My Q&A with the artist can be read here.