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Russian futurism, lunar visions and Bacon’s contorted flesh – the week in art | Russian futurism, lunar visions and Bacon’s contorted flesh – the week in art |
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Exhibition of the week | Exhibition of the week |
Natalia GoncharovaThis Russian futurist painted magically transformed glimpses of everyday life before the 1917 revolution.• Tate Modern, London, 6 June to 8 September. | Natalia GoncharovaThis Russian futurist painted magically transformed glimpses of everyday life before the 1917 revolution.• Tate Modern, London, 6 June to 8 September. |
Also showing | Also showing |
Now: Anya GallaccioGallaccio’s art of natural stuff, including ice and leaves, is at the heart of a survey of current art that also embraces Roger Hiorns and Charles Avery.• Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1 June to 22 September. | Now: Anya GallaccioGallaccio’s art of natural stuff, including ice and leaves, is at the heart of a survey of current art that also embraces Roger Hiorns and Charles Avery.• Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1 June to 22 September. |
E17 Art TrailThe National Gallery has lent Artemisia Gentileschi’s self-portrait as Saint Catherine to this festival in which 8,500 Walthamstow residents are taking part.• Walthamstow, London, 1-16 June. | E17 Art TrailThe National Gallery has lent Artemisia Gentileschi’s self-portrait as Saint Catherine to this festival in which 8,500 Walthamstow residents are taking part.• Walthamstow, London, 1-16 June. |
Francis BaconContorted flesh that expresses the agony of love makes Bacon’s art both unbearable and unmissable.• Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London, 6 June to 3 August. | Francis BaconContorted flesh that expresses the agony of love makes Bacon’s art both unbearable and unmissable.• Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London, 6 June to 3 August. |
Museum of the MoonThis artwork by Luke Jerram explores our satellite in the 50th anniversary year of the first Apollo moon landing.• Natural History Museum, London, until 1 January. | Museum of the MoonThis artwork by Luke Jerram explores our satellite in the 50th anniversary year of the first Apollo moon landing.• Natural History Museum, London, until 1 January. |
Masterpiece of the week | Masterpiece of the week |
The Toilet of Venus by Guido Reni and studio | The Toilet of Venus by Guido Reni and studio |
The goddess of love leans back as her attendants put on her jewellery and sandals and do her hair. Guido Reni’s colours are intense and strange. Venus looks almost blue. The pearly figures glow against shadowy recesses. Gold, purple and blue draperies add to the studied luxury. Long limbs suspended in space resemble waxen sculptures. This is a still and fetishised moment of beauty, observed with calm curiosity. Reni is one of the most insidiously erotic of old masters. His painting of Saint Sebastian elicited sexual responses from both Oscar Wilde and Yukio Mishima. This canvas, too, which experts recently upgraded from a studio product to a work with Reni’s original touches, has a peculiar baroque sensuality.• National Gallery, London. | The goddess of love leans back as her attendants put on her jewellery and sandals and do her hair. Guido Reni’s colours are intense and strange. Venus looks almost blue. The pearly figures glow against shadowy recesses. Gold, purple and blue draperies add to the studied luxury. Long limbs suspended in space resemble waxen sculptures. This is a still and fetishised moment of beauty, observed with calm curiosity. Reni is one of the most insidiously erotic of old masters. His painting of Saint Sebastian elicited sexual responses from both Oscar Wilde and Yukio Mishima. This canvas, too, which experts recently upgraded from a studio product to a work with Reni’s original touches, has a peculiar baroque sensuality.• National Gallery, London. |
Image of the week | Image of the week |
Into the Mountain by Simone Kenyon Dancers warm up with space blankets in Scotland’s Cairngorm mountains before performing this new site-specific work. Inspired and informed by Nan Shepherd’s 1974 book about these ancient hills, The Living Mountain, the project explores and celebrates women’s relationships with high and wild places. The audience walk with performers and a “sensory instructor”, choosing one of three routes that take up to six hours. Read more about it. | Into the Mountain by Simone Kenyon Dancers warm up with space blankets in Scotland’s Cairngorm mountains before performing this new site-specific work. Inspired and informed by Nan Shepherd’s 1974 book about these ancient hills, The Living Mountain, the project explores and celebrates women’s relationships with high and wild places. The audience walk with performers and a “sensory instructor”, choosing one of three routes that take up to six hours. Read more about it. |
What we learned | What we learned |
At 85, Frank Bowling was long overdue this magnificent Tate Britain show | At 85, Frank Bowling was long overdue this magnificent Tate Britain show |
Women prisoners connected with the drama of Artemisia Gentileschi | Women prisoners connected with the drama of Artemisia Gentileschi |
The Wellcome Collection is getting to grips with ageing and death | The Wellcome Collection is getting to grips with ageing and death |
Italy’s cultural heritage is falling into ruin | Italy’s cultural heritage is falling into ruin |
Stationery makes great street art | Stationery makes great street art |
Jock McFadyen is bringing punk to the Royal Academy summer shindig | Jock McFadyen is bringing punk to the Royal Academy summer shindig |
For an arty getaway, head to the Scottish Highlands | For an arty getaway, head to the Scottish Highlands |
Female artists have created a strange world of Unconscious Landscape | Female artists have created a strange world of Unconscious Landscape |
Alix Marie is fascinated by bodybuilding | Alix Marie is fascinated by bodybuilding |
New York has a new poster museum | New York has a new poster museum |
An Australian family is pushing galleries everywhere to champion female artists | An Australian family is pushing galleries everywhere to champion female artists |
Germaine Greer scorns Leonardo da Vinci | Germaine Greer scorns Leonardo da Vinci |
Stanislava Pinchuk is mapping identity with tattoos | Stanislava Pinchuk is mapping identity with tattoos |
A forgotten photographer who fled the Nazis is being remembered … | A forgotten photographer who fled the Nazis is being remembered … |
… and we should take care not to forget the artists of today, too | … and we should take care not to forget the artists of today, too |
The home of Velázquez could be saved – thanks to Shakespeare | The home of Velázquez could be saved – thanks to Shakespeare |
Education should not look away from uncomfortable art | Education should not look away from uncomfortable art |
A Constable sketch of his wife has been rediscovered | A Constable sketch of his wife has been rediscovered |
Las Vegas’s hotels signify a disappearing American past | Las Vegas’s hotels signify a disappearing American past |
Don’t forget | Don’t forget |
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