Critic's choice: Top 5 exhibitions

Fashion icon: Madonna by Steven Klein at the National Portrait Gallery

The Face of Fashion features some very stylish shots, the Tate Modern hosts a Gilbert & George retrospective, and it's your last chance to see The Photographic Portrait Prize 2006...

Face of Fashion
National Portrait Gallery, WC2
Work by a clutch of top fashion photographers comes together in this stylish survey. The exhibition yields an interesting insight into the intimate - and sometimes unsettlingly exploitative - relationship between photographer and subject. Until 28 May (020 7306 0055).

Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition
Tate Modern, SE1
The largest retrospective exhibition ever to be held at Tate Modern, it fills 18 rooms with charcoal-on-paper "sculptures", photographs, excrement and blood. Throughout, the figures of Gilbert and George loom, revelling in gleeful squalor while wrestling with themes of prejudice, religious fundamentalism and violence. Until 7 May (020 7887 888).

Tino Sehgal
ICA, SW1
The final instalment of a trilogy of exhibitions, dreamt up by London-born, Berlinbased Tino Seghal. Entitled This Success/This Failure it transforms the ICA into one big school playground, complete with kids. Until 4 March (020 7930 3647).

Hogarth
Tate Britain, SW1
The nation's first truly modern artist - or so this comprehensive exhibition seeks to persuade us. Highlights include The Rake's Progress and Marriage a la Mode, and you'll also find works by Yinka Shonibare, Paula Rego and other contemporary artists who've been inspired by him. Until 29 April (020 7887 8008).

LAST CHANCE: The Photographic Portrait Prize 2006
National Portrait Gallery, WC2
Richard Boll's £12,000 first-prize-winning photograph of a stranger called Joe who he chanced across in Brighton is shown here alongside 60 other noteworthy works, including Eitan Lee Al's portrait of model Lily Cole as Elizabeth I. Until 18 February (020 7306 0055).

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