Seven Major London Exhibitions Close on Sunday

Sunday 6 September is a cull. Seven major London exhibitions close on the same day, and after today there are three left: Friday, Saturday, Sunday. None of the seven is shut on any of those days — the only closing day among them is Monday, which no longer matters.

The Barbican loses two at once. 'Project a Black Planet' in the Art Gallery runs to over 250 works, from paintings and installations to posters, journals and film, with Chris Ofili, Marlene Dumas, Claudette Johnson, El Anatsui, Kader Attia, Rasheed Araeen, William Kentridge and Wifredo Lam among the artists. It is co-organised by the Art Institute of Chicago and MACBA Barcelona, in collaboration with the Barbican and KANAL-Centre Pompidou Brussels. Tickets are £20.50 standard, £6 Young Barbican for 16- to 29-year-olds, free under 16 — and there is Pay What You Can on Thursday evenings from 5pm to 8pm and Friday mornings from 10am to noon, which is to say today and tomorrow. Sunday hours are 10am to 6pm.

In The Curve, 'In Other Worlds: Liam Young with Collaborators' runs about 90 minutes, at £20.50 standard and £7.50 for children aged 5 to 15, with a voice cast including Diego Luna, Jeffrey Wright, Maxine Peake, Richard Ayoade and Denise Gough, and costumes by Ane Crabtree. It stays open until 7pm on Sunday — an hour later than the Art Gallery — so do that one second.

Liam Young: 'The future doesn't rush over us like water. It's not something that happens to us. It's an act of creation. It's something we make, moment by moment, together.'

Then the rest of it. The Courtauld has 'Hepworth in Colour' — around 20 sculptures and 30 drawings, in a show the gallery calls the first to explore 'a less familiar aspect of her work, the artist's lifelong fascination with colour'; Sunday 10am to 6pm, last entry 5.15pm. Serpentine South has Cecily Brown's 'Picture Making', which the gallery describes as her first major solo presentation of paintings in a UK institution since her 2005 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford — free, open to 7pm on Sunday. Somerset House has M.C. Escher, over 150 original works including Day and Night, Relativity and Hand with Reflecting Sphere, from £16.50, Sunday to 8pm with last entry at 6.30pm. Whitechapel Gallery has a new commission from the Argentinian, Lisbon-based artist Gabriel Chaile — free, Sunday 11am to 6pm.

The seventh is one this desk has already written about: Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, also closing Sunday, with 10pm late openings tomorrow and Saturday but not on the closing day itself.

If you wanted to do it in one day, the geography cooperates. Somerset House and the Courtauld share the Strand. The Barbican is EC2Y 8DS and Whitechapel is a short way east of it. Serpentine South sits in Kensington Gardens, and the National Portrait Gallery is off Trafalgar Square. Two of the seven — Cecily Brown and Gabriel Chaile — cost nothing at all, which makes a full Sunday possible on one Barbican ticket and some walking.

After that the calendar thins out. The next closure worth diarising is 'The Sun and the Moon: Art inspired by the celestial' at the Saatchi Gallery, which runs to 8 September at £20.