Exhibitions

Start with David Hockney's first ever Serpentine show, free, built around a ninety-metre iPad frieze tracing the seasons at his old Normandy studio. It closes 23 August, and is now, sadly, his last exhibition.

The Bayeux Tapestry arrives at the British Museum on 10 September, on loan from France for the first time in nearly a thousand years and displayed flat for the first time in its history. Book now, demand is expected to be exceptional. The V&A's Schiaparelli exhibition runs to 8 November, four hundred pieces charting her collaborations with Dalí and Cocteau. Tate Britain closes the first major European Whistler retrospective in thirty years on 27 September, a hundred and fifty works with a rare loan from Paris. Tate Modern's Frida Kahlo exhibition, over a hundred and thirty works tracing how she became a global icon, runs into January. The Royal Academy's Richard Dadd, Beyond Bedlam, the first major look at the Victorian painter in fifty years, whose obsessively detailed fairy paintings were made across decades in Bethlem and Broadmoor, closes 25 October. And at Kew Gardens, thirty Henry Moore sculptures are scattered across 320 acres of parkland, the largest Moore show ever staged, running into January.