Women lounging in floral dresses, drivers at the wheels of classic cars and solitary figures languishing in diners populate the photographs of William Eggleston, who has his most comprehensive survey of portrait photography to date opening this week at the National Portrait Gallery (21 July-23 October). Highlights include a five-foot-wide print taken from the famous photograph of the Tennessee-born artist's uncle, Adyn Schuyler Senior, with his assistant Jasper Staples in Cassidy Bayou, Mississippi.
Escape the summer heat and sample works by more than 40 artists in the Guggenheim-organised show Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today (extended until 11 September) at the South London Gallery and Fire Station. A screening of Alfredo Jaar’s electronic billboard piece, A Logo for America (1987/2014), lights up the show.
Dutch Flowers at the National Gallery (until 29 August) is a veritable garden of floral still-lifes by leading artists of the 17th and 18th centuries, including Jan Brueghel the Elder, Ambrosius Bosschaert and Rachel Ruysch. Betsy Wiseman, the curator of Dutch and Flemish paintings, says that this is the first exhibition “in London to be devoted to this perennially popular theme in over 20 years”.
