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Drawing Attention
Dulwich Picture Gallery, until 17 January

Last chance to see a really excellent selection of works on paper from the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada. It’s a relatively new collection, begun in 1969, but despite that it includes many of the great names of Western art. From the Italian Renaissance to 18th-century France via England and the Netherlands, from German Expressionism to international abstraction, not forgetting a group of works by some of Canada’s finest, the collection maintains a hearteningly high standard.

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Lucy Letby and the killer nurse I worked with

In the first room are the Italians, so good it’s difficult to know where to start. Stroll round the room a couple of times and see what particularly catches your eye. I was much taken by Guercino’s crumbly-faced witch accompanied by two bats and a demon in flight. What economy of line and character evoked — there’s more humour here than evil.