More exhibitions, including John Singer Sargent and David Hockney

Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends, National Portrait Gallery, London

An outstanding selection of John Singer Sargent's more intimate, idiosyncratic portraits shows the artist fresh and experimental across four decades, unrivalled as a chronicler of European bohemia from Henry James to Ellen Terry. Late spontaneous studies in Venice and Rome form a delicious coda. Final fortnight. npg.org.uk, 020 7306 0055, to May 25

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David Hockney: Paintings and Photography, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

What David Hockney has been doing since he left his native Yorkshire and returned to the west coast of America last year: group portraits including those of card players, and other portraits and scenes painted in his Los Angeles studio, explore his long-term interest in perspective and vanishing points, and the relationship between painting and the camera. annelyjudafineart.co.uk, 020 7629 7578, from Friday to June 27

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Sara Shamma: World Civil War Portraits, Stolen Space Gallery at the Old Truman Brewery, London

Sara Shamma was an internationally recognised artist - she won the BP Portrait Prize in 2004 - when she was forced to flee her native Syria for Lebanon in 2012. She has spent the years since painting images of the Syrian diaspora in portraits which balance naturalism and the symbolic, referencing skeletons, monsters, deflated balloons as well as hyper-real depictions of body organs in loose, spontaneous brushstrokes. Of those killed in Syria, Shamma says, "I want you to see them, look to their eyes and feel their loss, but I will not leave them dead, I want to bring them to life". stolenspace.com, 020 7247 2684, from Monday to May 24

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David Price: Dreamland, Art First, London

Temples, carousels, funfair rides, neon signs, in brushstrokes suggesting hologram glitz and fairground shimmer: in his painted tableaux Price reimagines Piranesi's etchings of ancient Rome as illustrations of the corrupted Dreamland amusement park in Margate, Kent. Like Piranesi's balance between majesty and abandonment, Price's imagery turns on tensions between Utopia, entropy and disillusion. artfirst.co.uk, 020 7734 0386, to June 6

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New Rhythms: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Marking the centenary of the sculptor's death, aged 23 in the first world war, this show focuses on his engagement with dance and movement, taking as a starting point his major pieces "Red Stone Dancer" and "Dancer", and "Firebird", inspired by the Ballets Russes. Kettle's Yard is a leading resource for Gaudier-Brzeska. kettlesyard.co.uk, 01223 748100, to June 21

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