An extremely entertaining production of Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ at the National Theatre, with the excellent Tamsin Greig as the cross-gendered Malvolia.

At the Royal Academy, London for this excellent exhibition of Russian art marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

The exhibition surveys the entire artistic landscape of post-Revolutionary Russia, mixing the Socialist Realism of Isaak Brodsky with the avant-garde art of Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky and the films of Sergei Eisenstein.

Isaak Brodsky ‘V.I.Lenin and Manifestation’ (1919)

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev ‘Bolshevik’ (1920)

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin ‘Fantasy’ (1925)

Kazimir Malevich ‘Peasants’ (c.1930)

Wassily Kandinsky ‘Blue Crest’ (detail, 1917)

At the Courtauld Gallery in London to see its excellent permanent collection, featuring art from the Renaissance up to the twentieth century.

Robert Campin ‘The Entombment’ (c.1425)

Botticelli ‘Trinity with Saints’ (1491 – 93)

Edouard Manet ‘Bar at the Folies Bergère’ (1882)

Vincent van Gogh ‘Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear’ (1889)

Paul Cezanne ‘The Card Players’ (1892 – 95)

At the National Gallery, London to see highlights of the Renaissance collection.

Jan van Eyck ‘The Arnolfini Portrait’ (1434)

Botticelli ‘Venus and Mars’ (c.1485)

Giovanni Bellini ‘Doge Leonardo Loredan’ (1501 – 02)

Leonardo da Vinci ‘Virgin of the Rocks’ (1491 – 1508)

Raphael ‘Madonna of the Pinks’ (1506 – 07)