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| A lockdown portrait, a trip to the seaside and America's bad dream – the week in art | A lockdown portrait, a trip to the seaside and America's bad dream – the week in art |
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| Gillian Wearing paints her self-portrait, bronze age mysteries are unearthed, and Grayson Perry maps the mess of the American psyche | Gillian Wearing paints her self-portrait, bronze age mysteries are unearthed, and Grayson Perry maps the mess of the American psyche |
| Exhibition of the week | Exhibition of the week |
| Gillian WearingA stunningly intelligent and sensitive lockdown project in which the celebrated video artist set out to paint her self-portrait.• Maureen Paley, London, until 25 October. | Gillian WearingA stunningly intelligent and sensitive lockdown project in which the celebrated video artist set out to paint her self-portrait.• Maureen Paley, London, until 25 October. |
| Also showing | Also showing |
| The Greatest Song a Songbird Ever Sung: Sophie BarberFunny, mysterious images are smattered in squeezes of rich colour. There is a seaside feel to Barber’s paintings, reflecting her life on the Sussex coast. Birds and camping feature, as well as art history guests.• Goldsmiths CCA, London, until 25 October. | |
| Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age MysteryWhy did ancient Britons throw swords and armour in rivers or bury them? Between 900BC and 800BC, hundreds of weapons were buried in what is now east London. This exhibition digs into the meaning of a sensational find.• Museum of London Docklands until 18 April. | Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age MysteryWhy did ancient Britons throw swords and armour in rivers or bury them? Between 900BC and 800BC, hundreds of weapons were buried in what is now east London. This exhibition digs into the meaning of a sensational find.• Museum of London Docklands until 18 April. |
| Image of the week | Image of the week |
| Be it on God, guns or Greta, social media offers neat solutions for our messy feelings. Grayson Perry writes about how this map of the US reflects a battle-torn landscape where nuance, compromise and empathy are casualties in the culture war. “I love maps. They have an air of authority, they show us where to go,” writes Perry. “This map toys with the common delusion that there is a clear and certain route out of our mess of feelings.” Read the story. | Be it on God, guns or Greta, social media offers neat solutions for our messy feelings. Grayson Perry writes about how this map of the US reflects a battle-torn landscape where nuance, compromise and empathy are casualties in the culture war. “I love maps. They have an air of authority, they show us where to go,” writes Perry. “This map toys with the common delusion that there is a clear and certain route out of our mess of feelings.” Read the story. |
| What we learned | What we learned |
| Frank Gehry declares an end to the age of bombastic “great man” monuments | Frank Gehry declares an end to the age of bombastic “great man” monuments |
| Meyne Wyatt becomes the first Indigenous artist to win an award in the 99 years of Australia’s Archibald prize … | Meyne Wyatt becomes the first Indigenous artist to win an award in the 99 years of Australia’s Archibald prize … |
| … while the overall winner, who takes home $100,000, will be announced on 25 September | … while the overall winner, who takes home $100,000, will be announced on 25 September |
| Lockdown ushers in a golden age of the balcony | Lockdown ushers in a golden age of the balcony |
| A slavery tour of London lays bare the atrocities of the past | A slavery tour of London lays bare the atrocities of the past |
| Artists are making tech simulations of life’s squishy stuff for the Covid-19 era | Artists are making tech simulations of life’s squishy stuff for the Covid-19 era |
| UK care home residents’ lockdown art offer visions of hope | UK care home residents’ lockdown art offer visions of hope |
| Gillian Wearing’s lockdown self-portraits peel back the mask and show the truth | Gillian Wearing’s lockdown self-portraits peel back the mask and show the truth |
| The Festival of Brexit is trying to unite Britain – artists have ideas how | The Festival of Brexit is trying to unite Britain – artists have ideas how |
| How to take great pictures – according to six acclaimed photographers | How to take great pictures – according to six acclaimed photographers |
| Designer Terence Conran, who transformed British taste, as died … | Designer Terence Conran, who transformed British taste, as died … |
| … and Observer critic Rowan Moore wrote about how Conran restyled Britain | … and Observer critic Rowan Moore wrote about how Conran restyled Britain |
| Modernist Edinburgh has never looked as good as on these embroidered postcards | Modernist Edinburgh has never looked as good as on these embroidered postcards |
| Elizabeth Price’s new exhibition baffles – and enthrals | Elizabeth Price’s new exhibition baffles – and enthrals |
| Olfaur Eliasson is talking nazism and Brexit – and his new Berlin show | Olfaur Eliasson is talking nazism and Brexit – and his new Berlin show |
| Artist Wendy Ewald gave Appalachian kids $10 cameras – and told them to shoot their dreams | Artist Wendy Ewald gave Appalachian kids $10 cameras – and told them to shoot their dreams |
| Danh Vō combines ancient sculptures with plants and human limbs in troubling art for the apocalypse | Danh Vō combines ancient sculptures with plants and human limbs in troubling art for the apocalypse |
| Joseph Cultice walked us through his shot of Marilyn Manson with prosthetic breasts | Joseph Cultice walked us through his shot of Marilyn Manson with prosthetic breasts |
| Mohamed Bourouissa has won the £30,000 Deutsche Börse photography prize | Mohamed Bourouissa has won the £30,000 Deutsche Börse photography prize |
| There is a race to protect ‘sublime mural’ in an Oldham church by artist who fled the Nazis | There is a race to protect ‘sublime mural’ in an Oldham church by artist who fled the Nazis |
| Cecily Brown brought her apocalyptic vision of England to Blenheim | Cecily Brown brought her apocalyptic vision of England to Blenheim |
| Dutch photographer Dana Lixenberg’s 20-year project digs into a forgotten part of LA | Dutch photographer Dana Lixenberg’s 20-year project digs into a forgotten part of LA |
| Blowing up a Transit van wiped out £1m of debt | Blowing up a Transit van wiped out £1m of debt |
| More than 300 artists sign letter in support of striking Tate workers | More than 300 artists sign letter in support of striking Tate workers |
| A £9.3m “Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer” outside Birmingham gets the go-ahead | A £9.3m “Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer” outside Birmingham gets the go-ahead |
| A dazzling makeover of 90-year-old Spanish lighthouse divides opinion | A dazzling makeover of 90-year-old Spanish lighthouse divides opinion |
| South African photographer Jürgen Schadeberg has died aged 89 | South African photographer Jürgen Schadeberg has died aged 89 |
| Young love trumps dreams of stardom in rural Argentina | Young love trumps dreams of stardom in rural Argentina |
| Valuable art by Damien Hirst and other YBAs that vanished from Soho Club haven’t been seen in 10 years | Valuable art by Damien Hirst and other YBAs that vanished from Soho Club haven’t been seen in 10 years |
| Masterpiece of the week | Masterpiece of the week |
| Italian Woman c.1870, by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Dark deep-set eyes and a private expression turn away from us under a pink headdress. Bright blue and lemon yellow add to the exotic colours caught in a strong light. But this is not an observation of someone on the streets of Naples or Rome. Corot painted it in his studio, long after first visiting Italy, and she is a model he paid to put on Italian clothes from his collection. Perhaps he is trying to recapture a youthful memory, to dress her like a love object seen long ago. That would account for the sharp shadows of melancholy and introspection that cut into this mysterious portrait left to the National Gallery by its previous owner, Lucian Freud.• National Gallery, London | Italian Woman c.1870, by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Dark deep-set eyes and a private expression turn away from us under a pink headdress. Bright blue and lemon yellow add to the exotic colours caught in a strong light. But this is not an observation of someone on the streets of Naples or Rome. Corot painted it in his studio, long after first visiting Italy, and she is a model he paid to put on Italian clothes from his collection. Perhaps he is trying to recapture a youthful memory, to dress her like a love object seen long ago. That would account for the sharp shadows of melancholy and introspection that cut into this mysterious portrait left to the National Gallery by its previous owner, Lucian Freud.• National Gallery, London |
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