The Independent Recommends: The Five Best Shows
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Charlotte Salomon Royal Academy
"Life? Or Theatre?", Salomon's life in pictures. Her 405 raw gouaches tell the story of the German Jewish girl's haste before Auschwitz - an expressionistic operetta in three colours. To 17 Jan
Grinling Gibbons
Victoria & Albert Museum
The best chisel-work of the great 17th-century English woodcarver, who made intricacy and the abundance of nature his trademark. To 24 Jan
Chris Ofili
Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
This 1998 Turner Prize-winner is an upbeat original, his surfaces dense and decorative, with swirls of dots, Afros and black icons, and incorporating elephant dung. To 24 Jan
Edward Burne-Jones
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
This centenary exhibition gathers together many favourites illustrating Burne-Jones's romantic and medievalist nether world. To 17 Jan
Aubrey Beardsley (V&A Museum)
Displaying the short and glittering life - he died in 1898 at 25 - of the master aesthete (above) and illustrator of the decadent scene, with his uniquely sinuous and florid line. Drawings, prints and
posters. To 10 Jan
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