Flower Paintings, Surreal Polaroids, and Conceptual Receipts Highlight Art Week

Kettle's Yard in Cambridge presents 'Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today' from April 25 to September 6, featuring works by Henri Rousseau and Lubaina Himid. Billy Childish exhibits new California desert paintings at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate from April 26 to June 14. Katharina Grosse shows site-specific interventions at White Cube Bermondsey in London from April 22 to May 31. Les Krims's surreal 1970s Polaroids are on view at Graces Mews in London until May 23. Racheal Crowther's scent-based installation debuts at Chisenhale Gallery in London until June 14. Steve McQueen's 2024 photography book 'Bounty' explores Grenada's flora as witnesses to colonial trauma. Ceal Floyer's 1999 conceptual work 'Monochrome Till Receipt (White)' uses a Morrisons receipt from Camden to evoke mental imagery of white items, currently on loan in Tokyo. Other notable mentions include a Picasso raffle win in Paris, a permanent Bridget Jones statue in Leicester Square, V&A East's new collection, Elizabeth Allen's needlework exhibition at Compton Verney, Abidjan's flourishing art week, a 46-year sitting for Frank Auerbach, the groundbreaking art of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, and Joan Semmel's shameless work at age 93.