Hew Locke: what have we here?; Haegue Yang: Leap Year – review

British Museum; Hayward Gallery, London
In a show packed with treasures and tales of rampant imperial theft, the Guyanese-British artist compels you to look twice – and rethink everything. And finding poetry in the every day, Korean-styleCaptain Speedy, sporting an Ethiopian fur cloak, sits for his photograph on the Isle of Wight. It is 1868 and he has just returned from Britain’s punitive “expedition” to Abyssinia. Among his trophies are the lion’s mane shield prop