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PICASSO AND PAPER

This colossal exhibition of more than 300 of Picasso’s works, exploring his imaginative uses of paper, affirms that he was a prolific, protean artist, but also contains a host of surprises and moments of delightful frivolity and mischief.

Royal Academy, London W1 (020 7300 8000), todayApril 13

VIVIAN SUTER

A kaleidoscopic installation featuring 250 large, gestural abstract canvases, hung together like a forest of hand-stitched flags. With their splashes of mud and encrusted leaves, many bear traces of the Guatemalan jungle where this 70-yearold painter has worked for decades.

Camden Arts Centre, London NW3 (020 7472 5500), until April 5

PORTRAYING PREGNANCY

Now, here’s a fruitful, long-overdue idea for a show: representations of pregnant women made over five centuries, from the era of Holbein – whose drawing of Sir Thomas More’s daughter, Cicely Heron, is a highlight – to our own, when Awol Erizku’s portrait of Beyoncé Knowles pregnant with twins became the most liked Instagram post of 2017. The Foundling Museum, London WC1 (020 7841 3600), until April 26

NAUM GABO

First British retrospective in more than 30 years for the visionary Russian-born artist Naum Gabo (1890-1977), who spent several years in St

Ives, and used newfangled materials such as plastic to make sleek, futuristic sculptures of immense refinement and poise.

Tate St Ives, Cornwall

(01736 796226), today-May 3