Another Country: London Painters in Dialogue with Modern Italian Art
Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1, until 20 June
In recent years there has been something of a vogue for encouraging contemporary artists to respond to particular works by artists of the past, and to make paintings as part of that response.

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