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| Gentileschi's shocking genius and Bruce Nauman's Clown Torture – the week in art | Gentileschi's shocking genius and Bruce Nauman's Clown Torture – the week in art |
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| The RA has a starry summer exhibition, Nauman’s black humour is on full display and a knock-out Artemisia Gentileschi show opens at the National Gallery | The RA has a starry summer exhibition, Nauman’s black humour is on full display and a knock-out Artemisia Gentileschi show opens at the National Gallery |
| Exhibition of the week | Exhibition of the week |
| ArtemisiaThe genius of Artemisia Gentileschi is so immediate, shocking and moving that it is hard to believe she died more than 350 years ago. She takes the modern art world by storm in this extraordinary exhibition that reunites all her great paintings – they’ve come from German castles, Italian palazzi and even Hampton Court to form the most dazzling show you will see this year. It’s not often you can feel history change in an exhibition but this is epochal in its revelation of one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Read my full review.• National Gallery, London, from 3 October until 24 January. | ArtemisiaThe genius of Artemisia Gentileschi is so immediate, shocking and moving that it is hard to believe she died more than 350 years ago. She takes the modern art world by storm in this extraordinary exhibition that reunites all her great paintings – they’ve come from German castles, Italian palazzi and even Hampton Court to form the most dazzling show you will see this year. It’s not often you can feel history change in an exhibition but this is epochal in its revelation of one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Read my full review.• National Gallery, London, from 3 October until 24 January. |
| Also showing | Also showing |
| Kehinde WileyPlymouth has a new art space, The Box, and a treasure chest of nautical exhibits. This exhibition by Barack Obama’s chosen portraitist is a video inspired by the German medieval image of the Ship of Fools, which becomes a raft bearing an outcast hero on the open sea.• The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth, until 24 January. | Kehinde WileyPlymouth has a new art space, The Box, and a treasure chest of nautical exhibits. This exhibition by Barack Obama’s chosen portraitist is a video inspired by the German medieval image of the Ship of Fools, which becomes a raft bearing an outcast hero on the open sea.• The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth, until 24 January. |
| Summer ExhibitionYes, it’s October, but who’s got it in them to be surprised? The curators are video artists and twin sisters, Jane and Louise Wilson, with works by the likes of Tracey Emin, Anselm Kiefer, Gillian Wearing and Ai Weiwei on show. Read my full review.• Royal Academy, London, from 6 October until 3 January. | Summer ExhibitionYes, it’s October, but who’s got it in them to be surprised? The curators are video artists and twin sisters, Jane and Louise Wilson, with works by the likes of Tracey Emin, Anselm Kiefer, Gillian Wearing and Ai Weiwei on show. Read my full review.• Royal Academy, London, from 6 October until 3 January. |
| Bruce NaumanAre you in the mood for Clown Torture? The title of Bruce Nauman’s 1987 video says a lot about the edgy black humour that has made him such a significant artist of contemporary life. Clown Torture features in this retrospective along with other celebrated works, from relics of 1960s physical performances to neon puns.• Tate Modern, London, from 7 October until 21 February. | Bruce NaumanAre you in the mood for Clown Torture? The title of Bruce Nauman’s 1987 video says a lot about the edgy black humour that has made him such a significant artist of contemporary life. Clown Torture features in this retrospective along with other celebrated works, from relics of 1960s physical performances to neon puns.• Tate Modern, London, from 7 October until 21 February. |
| Don McCullinMcCullin’s poignant and compassionate reportage is a masterclass in how photography can be art. The sensitivity of his eye, the warmth of his feeling, pour through these images so consistently that you forget they were taken by pressing a button.• Tate Liverpool, until 9 May. | Don McCullinMcCullin’s poignant and compassionate reportage is a masterclass in how photography can be art. The sensitivity of his eye, the warmth of his feeling, pour through these images so consistently that you forget they were taken by pressing a button.• Tate Liverpool, until 9 May. |
| What we learned | What we learned |
| Architect David Adjaye has made history by winning a RIBA gold medal | Architect David Adjaye has made history by winning a RIBA gold medal |
| A new exhibition celebrates the long history of migrants in the NHS | A new exhibition celebrates the long history of migrants in the NHS |
| Nottingham is getting a peek behind the mask of megastardom with a Grace Jones exhibition | Nottingham is getting a peek behind the mask of megastardom with a Grace Jones exhibition |
| An ancient sculpture put up for auction in UK is to be returned to Iraq | An ancient sculpture put up for auction in UK is to be returned to Iraq |
| Fund civic museums to help reawaken English city centres, bosses have urged | Fund civic museums to help reawaken English city centres, bosses have urged |
| The V&A is to make 10% of staff redundant amid the Covid pandemic | The V&A is to make 10% of staff redundant amid the Covid pandemic |
| Westminster’s links to Britain’s slave trade have been revealed in an art survey | Westminster’s links to Britain’s slave trade have been revealed in an art survey |
| Pantone has launched a new shade of red to end menstruation stigma | Pantone has launched a new shade of red to end menstruation stigma |
| Sotheby’s is to auction defining image of BLM protests | Sotheby’s is to auction defining image of BLM protests |
| London’s Eastenders have hit back against a leering Jack the Ripper mural | London’s Eastenders have hit back against a leering Jack the Ripper mural |
| A fun-filled new school has been built in London – right below luxury flats | A fun-filled new school has been built in London – right below luxury flats |
| A rebel US artist is putting black lives in the Renaissance frame | A rebel US artist is putting black lives in the Renaissance frame |
| Artists are using stamps as statements of resistance | Artists are using stamps as statements of resistance |
| Art titan Bruce Nauman has looked back on studio stunts and liquid lunches with legends | Art titan Bruce Nauman has looked back on studio stunts and liquid lunches with legends |
| Nalini Malani’s animation chamber is a stunning sensory assault … | Nalini Malani’s animation chamber is a stunning sensory assault … |
| How Sunil Gupta captured global gay life – and Miss UK | How Sunil Gupta captured global gay life – and Miss UK |
| What Beijing’s streets looked like before and after lockdown | What Beijing’s streets looked like before and after lockdown |
| The art of a woodcarver who grappled with civil rights and racism is on show | The art of a woodcarver who grappled with civil rights and racism is on show |
| The Observer’s art critic finds the British Museum’s new Tantra show is full of ecstasy, passion – and violence | The Observer’s art critic finds the British Museum’s new Tantra show is full of ecstasy, passion – and violence |
| I’ve picked 10 of the best hidden-gem art galleries, from Llandudno to Stromness | I’ve picked 10 of the best hidden-gem art galleries, from Llandudno to Stromness |
| Rob Cianflone’s best photograph is airborne jubilation at the Women’s World Cup | Rob Cianflone’s best photograph is airborne jubilation at the Women’s World Cup |
| Photographer Paul Graham leads us on a 1980s road trip down the A1 … | Photographer Paul Graham leads us on a 1980s road trip down the A1 … |
| While Jamie Johnson spent five years photographing Irish Traveller children … | While Jamie Johnson spent five years photographing Irish Traveller children … |
| And Nik Roche has a fresh perspective on addiction | And Nik Roche has a fresh perspective on addiction |
| Philip Guston’s KKK images force us to stare evil in the face, writes curator Aindrea Emelife | Philip Guston’s KKK images force us to stare evil in the face, writes curator Aindrea Emelife |
| Sydney’s Sculpture by the Sea exhibition has been postponed due to Covid … | Sydney’s Sculpture by the Sea exhibition has been postponed due to Covid … |
| … But Australian artist Lindy Lee has a new exhibition at the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art. | … But Australian artist Lindy Lee has a new exhibition at the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art. |
| The Drone awards have picked its favourite sky-high images | The Drone awards have picked its favourite sky-high images |
| Masterpiece of the week | Masterpiece of the week |
| Susanna and the Elders, 1620-25, by Guido ReniThe radicalism of Artemisia Gentileschi’s Susanna and the Elders, the first painting you see in her National Gallery retrospective, is emphasised by contrast with this treatment by a male contemporary. Reni is a brilliant colourist – look at the contrast between the reddened flesh of the old men and Susanna’s pale nudity – but no psychologist. Everyone here seems a bit passive. In this biblical story that fascinated artists in 17th-century Europe, a young woman is disturbed at her bath by two aged voyeurs. The theme is full of tension. Are we also voyeurs? But Reni seems ungripped by the drama. Susanna barely reacts to the Elders, and they seem like saints. It’s a far cry from the terror and oppression Gentileschi saw when she painted this story at the age of 17.• National Gallery, London. | Susanna and the Elders, 1620-25, by Guido ReniThe radicalism of Artemisia Gentileschi’s Susanna and the Elders, the first painting you see in her National Gallery retrospective, is emphasised by contrast with this treatment by a male contemporary. Reni is a brilliant colourist – look at the contrast between the reddened flesh of the old men and Susanna’s pale nudity – but no psychologist. Everyone here seems a bit passive. In this biblical story that fascinated artists in 17th-century Europe, a young woman is disturbed at her bath by two aged voyeurs. The theme is full of tension. Are we also voyeurs? But Reni seems ungripped by the drama. Susanna barely reacts to the Elders, and they seem like saints. It’s a far cry from the terror and oppression Gentileschi saw when she painted this story at the age of 17.• National Gallery, London. |
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