Exhibition of the week
Nationwide TreasuresAs a part of celebrations for its bicentenary, masterpieces from the Nationwide Gallery dangle in museums throughout the UK together with Vermeer in Edinburgh, Caravaggio in Belfast and Botticelli in Cambridge. At 12 museums throughout the UK, deadlines fluctuate
Additionally exhibiting
Now You See Us: Ladies Artists in Britain 1520-1920A seek for misplaced feminine artists of the Tudor, Stuart, Georgian and Victorian eras opens new vistas on British historical past. Tate Britain, London, 16 Might till 13 October
Marc Quinn: Mild Into LifeOutsized sculptures of orchids, palms and different vegetation by the artist who solid his personal head in blood. Kew Gardens, London, till 29 September
Isa Genzken: Wasserspeier and AngelsDada’s not lifeless within the subversive scattershot assemblages of this highly effective artist. Hauser and Wirth, London, till 27 July
Andrew SimThis New York painter represents queer expertise in mockingly twee photos of timber, unicorns and santa. Jupiter Artland, close to Edinburgh, 11 Might till 29 September
Picture of the week
Beryl Cook dinner was as soon as dismissed by the artwork institution as bawdy kitsch, however a brand new exhibition is celebrating her liberating sexual expression alongside one other outsider artist, Tom of Finland.
What we realized
Influential US summary artist Frank Stella has died aged 87
Miniature works by Henry Moore went on show in Tub
Jack Lueders-Sales space’s 70s Polaroids are a transferring report of life in a US girls’s jail
Paul Trevillion is hoping to promote his pen-and-ink portrait of Churchill for £1m
The historical past of breasts in artwork is a ‘wild cocktail of emotion, politics and want’
Marian Zazeela, who co-created the Dream Home in New York, has died aged 83
A misplaced Caravaggio that nearly bought for €1,500 will go on present at Prado this month
A Guernica-style battle of Orgreave portray stars in a miners’ strikes exhibition
AI has been used to establish counterfeit Renoirs, Monets and others on the market on eBay
MoMA is to host a significant survey of artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s work
Curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley has revealed a ‘attractive espresso desk’ historical past of queer artwork
Masterpiece of the week
Saint John the Evangelist on the Island of Patmos by Diego Velázquez, 1618-19
The visionary and the true collide in a jarring, unforgettable method on this early portray by one in every of artwork’s most delicate intellects. John, a follower of Christ and creator of one of many 4 gospels, is on a Greek island seeing the longer term. His prophetic insights, which he’s seen right here writing down as they unfold, are full of startling, excessive imagery. Artists from Albrecht Dürer to JMW Turner have been impressed by John’s visions as described within the Guide of Revelations. However Velázquez prefers hardheaded actuality to fantastical allegories. He provides a glimpse of John’s Revelations in a golden void the place the Girl of the Apocalypse confronts the satanic dragon. However the true meat of the portray is the lifelike presence of John himself, a younger man clearly modelled on an precise particular person, perhaps a Seville road vendor or servant, who retains his toes actually on the bottom whilst he witnesses the tip of the world. Nationwide Gallery
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