Isaac Julien: True North & Fantôme Afrique
Victoria Miro Gallery, London N1, until 12 Nov
Isaac Julien was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for work which explored identity. His latest show at the Victoria Miro Gallery, a pairing of films which, he says, will eventually be part of a trio of related works, again addresses [...]

Nelson and Napoleon never met, but a new exhibition shows how these small men once towered over Europe
Nelson and Napoleon
National Maritime Museum, London SE10; until 13 November
Although Nelson and Napoleon never met, the National Maritime Museum has had fun composing this exhibition to mark the bicentenary of Trafalgar.
The exhibition places the men in their [...]

Folk Archive
Barbican, London EC2; until 24 July
When Jeremy Deller won the Turner prize last December, the judges praised him for his ‘generosity of spirit, across a succession of projects which engage with social and cultural context and celebrate the creativity of individuals’. What Jeremy did next, then, shouldn’t come as a surprise.
In Folk Archive, Deller [...]