The Independent Recommends: The Five Best Shows
Rembrandt by Himself (National Gallery, London)
The self-portraits (right). The first and most searching autobiography in paint. The great pictorial statements of honesty and mortality, of the human depths. Thirty paintings. To 5 Sept
Morandi and His Time (Estorick Collection, London)
Mr Twentieth-Century Still Life: 19 of his table-top pictures, with their close but tense families of bottles, jugs and pots - plus work by contemporaries. To 19 Sept
Shape of the Century (Salisbury Festival)
One hundred years of British sculpture - and they're all here: Epstein, Gill, Moore, Caro, Hepworth, Frink, Long, Kapoor, Gormley, Whiteread. To 19 Aug
Presence (Tate Gallery, Liverpool)
Figurative Art at the End of the Century: from a monumental Lucian Freud nude to Ron Mueck's giant, super-real model of a gawky girl in a swimsuit. To 5 Sept
John Coplans (Dean Gallery, Edinburgh)
Portrait of the artist as a fat old naked man? Coplans' photo-tableaux of close-ups of his body present flesh beyond classification, vulnerable and monumental. To 25 Jul
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