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| A lost childhood home, magic mushrooms and arty face masks – the week in art | A lost childhood home, magic mushrooms and arty face masks – the week in art |
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| Ashile Gorky and Jack Whitten provide serious art for serious times, David Shrigley designs a face mask for charity, and early Beatles photographer Astrid Kirchherr has died – all in your weekly dispatch | Ashile Gorky and Jack Whitten provide serious art for serious times, David Shrigley designs a face mask for charity, and early Beatles photographer Astrid Kirchherr has died – all in your weekly dispatch |
| Exhibition of the week | Exhibition of the week |
| Arshile Gorky and Jack WhittenWe live in serious times and so we need serious art. The Armenian-born American painter Arshile Gorky saw his mother die on a hunger march and summoned his lost childhood home in art that is brightly coloured yet spiky with sorrow. Alabama abstractionist Whitten was his lifelong admirer. • Hauser and Wirth | |
| Also showing | Also showing |
| MushroomsThis psychedelic survey of our fascination with mushrooms, with an enthusiastically picked basket of artists from Cy Twombly to Carsten Höller and a strong emphasis on the more hallucinogenic fungi, was a hit before lockdown and is now visitable online. Come to think of it, magic mushrooms may be exactly what we need.• Somerset House, London | |
| KimonoThe iconic Japanese garment has inspired artists and fashion designers for centuries and now you can explore its history in a curator’s tour of this V&A exhibition cut short by the pandemic.• V&A, London | |
| Hepworth Ceramics FairThe acclaimed Yorkshire gallery’s annual fair for stylish pottery takes place online this year.• The Hepworth, Wakefield, 22 to 25 May | |
| Noteworthy WomenMoney may be in short supply but this online exhibition from the Bank of England celebrates women who have made, and appeared on, our banknotes.• The Bank of England, London | |
| Image of the week | Image of the week |
| Astrid Kirchherr, the photographer whose shots of the Beatles helped turn them into icons, died aged 81. Kirchherr took the first photo of the Beatles as a group, at the city’s fairground in 1960, when the bassist, Stuart Sutcliffe, and the drummer, Pete Best, were still members. She dated Sutcliffe, and cut his hair into the “moptop” style that came to be a key look for the early Beatles. Read Sean O’Hagan’s appreciation of her work here. | Astrid Kirchherr, the photographer whose shots of the Beatles helped turn them into icons, died aged 81. Kirchherr took the first photo of the Beatles as a group, at the city’s fairground in 1960, when the bassist, Stuart Sutcliffe, and the drummer, Pete Best, were still members. She dated Sutcliffe, and cut his hair into the “moptop” style that came to be a key look for the early Beatles. Read Sean O’Hagan’s appreciation of her work here. |
| What we learned | What we learned |
| Just what the world’s great cities look like without people | Just what the world’s great cities look like without people |
| What design David Shrigley has put on a coronavirus face mask | What design David Shrigley has put on a coronavirus face mask |
| What the world looks like from female photographers’ perspective | What the world looks like from female photographers’ perspective |
| Why banning knockoff buildings might bring a renaissance in Chinese architecture | Why banning knockoff buildings might bring a renaissance in Chinese architecture |
| Beatles photographer Astrid Kirchherr has died | Beatles photographer Astrid Kirchherr has died |
| What Kirchherr’s eye for style brought to the Beatles | What Kirchherr’s eye for style brought to the Beatles |
| Welcome to the yurt-opolis! How Mongolia is helping its nomads adapt to big city life | Welcome to the yurt-opolis! How Mongolia is helping its nomads adapt to big city life |
| Berlin’s cultural capital is in peril from exodus of billionaire art collectors | Berlin’s cultural capital is in peril from exodus of billionaire art collectors |
| Even an art critic has an inner critic | Even an art critic has an inner critic |
| Anish Kapoor believes Modi is using coronavirus to destroy India’s heritage | Anish Kapoor believes Modi is using coronavirus to destroy India’s heritage |
| An Italian woman won a €1m Picasso in Christmas raffle | An Italian woman won a €1m Picasso in Christmas raffle |
| Massive Attack’s 3D raises £106,000 for Bristol food banks with an art print fire sale | Massive Attack’s 3D raises £106,000 for Bristol food banks with an art print fire sale |
| Marc Quinn’s “viral paintings” form personal visual diary of the global health emergency … | Marc Quinn’s “viral paintings” form personal visual diary of the global health emergency … |
| … and other artists are making upbeat coronavirus murals | … and other artists are making upbeat coronavirus murals |
| Where Henry Wellcome kept his cats – and other great trivia in our great British art quiz | Where Henry Wellcome kept his cats – and other great trivia in our great British art quiz |
| That Pompeii didn’t see catastrophe coming – and neither did we – as the British Museum shows | That Pompeii didn’t see catastrophe coming – and neither did we – as the British Museum shows |
| After the war, the arts came back stronger. They can do so again now, says Charlotte Higgins | After the war, the arts came back stronger. They can do so again now, says Charlotte Higgins |
| Guardian critics say wifi could be the saviour of culture | Guardian critics say wifi could be the saviour of culture |
| Damien Hirst has few complaints about lockdown life | Damien Hirst has few complaints about lockdown life |
| Edvard Munch’s The Scream needs to practise physical distancing, say experts | Edvard Munch’s The Scream needs to practise physical distancing, say experts |
| Masterpiece of the week | Masterpiece of the week |
| Knight, Death and Devil, 1513, Albrecht DürerA rider who has armoured himself against life’s assaults looks straight ahead as he passes through the wild, rugged landscape of this hostile world. His gaze is fixed and rigid because if he glanced around, he’d see the horrors that dog him, and might despair. A grotesque devil follows closely behind, eager to tempt him into sin and madness. Meanwhile Death, the grim rider who accompanies us all, leers at the knight hungrily and holds up an hourglass. This was what it felt like to inhabit Dürer’s plague-ridden world, and what it feels like now. Put on your armour or at least your face mask.• National Galleries of Scotland | |
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