Matisse, Rembrandt, Richard Hamilton: this year's London art shows - in pictures

Two shows by British pop art’s key figures bookend 2014. While London hasn’t been short of Richard Hamilton exhibitions in recent years, February boasts a double-whammy. The ICA (SW1, 12 Feb to 6 Apr) is recreating his early 1950s installations, while Tate Modern (SE1, 13 Feb to 26 May) stages the first posthumous retrospective, including the iconic collage Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (pictured), which skewers the consumer good life. Photograph: PR

There’s also Hamilton's pin-up girl collage and riff on one of the swinging 1960s’ infamous images: Mick Jagger being arrested after a police raid on Keith Richards’s Sussex home, shielding his face from paparazzi cameras (pictured). You can also see his later doctored satirical photos which feature Tony Blair as a cowboy. Photograph: PR

In November, the Royal Academy looks back at the work of Allen Jones (W1, 13 Nov to 25 Jan 2015). Influenced by psychoanalysis, his S&M-inflected sculptures and paintings featuring nubile pins (pictured), kinky boots and bondage wear, bring out the fetishistic undertones powering artists’ creative urges. Photograph: PR

In between those two shows, Henri Matisse’s cut-outs (pictured), which he began creating when too ill to paint, should prove blockbuster material at Tate Modern this spring (SE1, 17 Apr to 7 Sep). Photograph: PR

At the same time, a survey of Chris Marker at the Whitechapel Gallery (E1, 16 Apr to 22 Jun), will show there’s more to the late, great French film essayist than his beloved photo-montage sci-fi La Jetée (pictured), said to have inspired everything from The Terminator to 12 Monkeys. Photograph: BFI

In June, the Serpentine plays host to Marina Abramovic, whose spectacular, physically punishing endurance performances have garnered her stratospheric levels of fame and high-profile fans such as Jay Z (who performed with her last year) and Lady Gaga. Finally, Rembrandt: The Final Years at the National Gallery (WC2, 15 Oct to 18 Jan) promises minimal elbow room and major works, including the meditative, unflinching self-portraits of his impoverished old age. Photograph: PR