Exhibition of the week
Michelangelo: The Final A long time
Passionate and confessional drawings by one of many best artists of all time.
British Museum, London, from 2 Might till 28 July
Additionally displaying
Urs Fischer
The Swiss artist well-known for turning celebrities and creative masterpieces into step by step melting candles brings his newest provocations to Scotland.
The Trendy Instiute, Glasgow, till 25 Might
LR Vandy
Vandy makes rope sculptures in her studio beside the previous Royal Navy dockyard in Chatham, Kent, which evoke the historical past of crusing ships and enslavement.
October Gallery, London, till 25 Might
Peppi Bottrop
Surreal tangles of metallic and furry paint from this California-based German artist.
Pilar Corrias, London, till 25 Might
Rasheed Araeen
A round ground set up of booze bottles gives a bleak parody of Richard Lengthy’s land artwork.
The Showroom, London, till 4 Might
Picture of the week
This portrait of the African American slavery abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond was commissioned as a part of the Guardian’s Cotton Capital collection. It’s among the many works thought of for this 12 months’s Turner prize, for which Claudette Johnson has been shortlisted.
What we discovered
This 12 months’s Turner prize shortlist is one within the eye for petty nationalists
A survey of the Twentieth-century Blue Rider painters is an exhilarating riot of color
Conflict in Gaza and Ukraine is making itself felt on the Venice Biennale
Work from Nigeria, Bulgaria and the worldwide south on the Biennale is revelatory
Our critic discovered the pageant “stuffed with the clamour of conflicting voices”
Caravaggio is our display screen age’s artwork celebrity
Augustus John’s granddaughter says his later works ought to have been burned
“Social sculptor” George Wyllie now has his personal museum, The Wyllieum
A brand new exhibition charts the astonishing profession of photographer Tim Hetherington
A Washington DC present gathers 28 feminine artists grappling with social upheaval
A Gustav Klimt portray, thought misplaced for 100 years, has offered for €30m
Bored with colonial artefacts being hoarded, two artists use tech to redistribute them
Masterpiece of the week
Mars and Venus by Palma Giovane, circa 1590
Venus and Mars can’t wait to get to it on this utterly unabashed erotic portray. The affair between these two historic pagan deities, the god of struggle and goddess of affection, is advised of by classical writers comparable to Ovid and Lucretius. Renaissance artists who obtained it from such sources usually painting it as a courtly romance: in Botticelli’s model within the Nationwide Gallery, Venus reclines decorously whereas Mars slumbers. However Palma properties in on the bodily ardour. Venus is already bare and demanding a snog as Cupid helps Mars undress. This was painted in Venice the place such artists as Titian and Veronese created a number of the lushest nudes ever painted. If there’s any doubt such artwork was meant to arouse, this removes it.
Nationwide Gallery, London
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