Exhibition of the week
Frank Bowling and Sculpture
This mighty summary painter of historical past and sorrow reveals his sculptural facet.
Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, till 3 September.
Additionally exhibiting
Milton Avery
The seascapes of America grow to be chic abstractions on this artist’s works, that are like Rothkos with folks in them.
Royal Academy, London, from 15 July till 16 October
Lyndsey Mendick
Unusual ceramics and homages to Anne Boleyn and Medusa from an artist with a joyously subversive creativeness.
Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, till 28 August
House Well-liked
An exhibition of “portals” that open to take you on fictional journeys in time and house, from the Tardis to the world of JK Rowling.
Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, till 25 September
Cardboard Gothic
Pollock’s Toy Museum brings to life the lurid creativeness of Horace Walpole, builder of Strawberry Hill and inventor of the gothic novel.
Strawberry Hill, London, till 14 September
Picture of the week
Feminine truckers within the US are in it for the lengthy haul. These are the ladies who’ve confronted off sexist feedback, well being issues and undesirable intruders to pursue a profession behind the wheel. See the complete gallery right here.
What we discovered
An undiscovered self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh has been hiding in plain sight
Boris Johnson’s costly flat refurb was a revealing window into his latest “Trump-like insanity”
Howardena Pindell is countering tragedy, horror and on a regular basis racism with fearless grace
Turner prize winner Mark Leckey’s dream got here true
Looted antiquities returned by France have begun a “royal tour” of Benin
From “Barbies scissoring” to “contorted emotion”, artists are utilizing AI
Gown to impress: a brand new exhibition seemed on the affect of garments on how we stay
A Barnsley quartet purged their demons
Brent biennial introduced queer cheer to London
The Skywhale balloon sculpture was grounded in Australia after sturdy winds ripped a ‘gash’ within the balloon
The lives of the forgotten, erased and dispossessed have been uncovered in a gripping new present
Masterpiece of the week
St Matthias on the Guillotine by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c.1512)
In the event you thought the guillotine was invented to kill aristocrats within the French Revolution, suppose once more. This German Renaissance woodcut depicts a beheading machine in use loads earlier. As St Matthias, who was enrolled as an apostle to exchange the traitor Judas Iscariot, rests his neck on its base, a terrifying blade is able to descend. Have been such machines actually in use? As with Leonardo da Vinci’s designs for secret weapons and flying machines, Cranach might be utilizing his inventive ability to make a unbelievable gadget look doable. He could even be selling it as his invention. It definitely appears stable and sinister. You possibly can virtually really feel the grain of the wooden on this grisly instance of the ability and strangeness of German Renaissance artwork.
British Museum, London.
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