Curated by Charles Saatchi

While ostensibly celebrating the Saatchi Gallery's twentieth anniversary, this exhibition (actually made up of three parts over the course of a year) looks more like an aggressive defense of the beleaguered adman's taste. It opens with a cherry-picking of his collection—forty-eight canvases by Kippenberger, Dumas, Tuymans, and three others—to make the case that Saatchi always knew what was best in painting. Thus awed, we're set up to predict a lasting future for the younger artists whose work he will display in subsequent months. Sceptics may wonder what proportion of Saatchi's acquisitions these historical hits represent, but his rampant and scattershot purchasing here reveals an upside: Whatever medium takes precedence next, Saatchi will most likely be able to say he was there first, too.

— Martin Herbert