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Exhibition of the week
Eco-Visionaries
Olafur Eliasson, our century’s most sublime and engaged artist of the natural world, leads this cultural take on the climate crisis. Read our review
• Royal Academy, London, 23 November to 23 February.
Also showing
Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries
This exuberant and epic new gallery of medical history is a gory delight, from wax anatomical sculptures to a truly terrifying padded cell.
• Science Museum, London, permanent.
The Uncanny: A Centenary
The freaky surrealist etchings of Hans Bellmer and a spooky audio trail by Elizabeth Dearnley are among artworks marking 100 years since Sigmund Freud analysed the nature of unease in a famous essay.
• Freud Museum, London, until 9 February.
Paula Rego
Sinewy paintings of bodies tautened by fear and desire make the art of this Freudian visionary a punch in the heart.
•Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two), 23 November to 19 April.
Meltdown
Images and installations that help visualise the melting of glaciers and other disturbing climate data.
• Horniman Museum, London, until 12 January.
Image of the week
Untitled (Hand-Shell) by Dora Maar, 1934
The surreal creations of photographer and painter Dora Maar have gone on show at Tate Modern, London, in a retrospective that lifts the artist from the shadow of her lover, Picasso. Full of daring experimentation, her images range from dream-like erotica to insightful street photographs.
• Read Sean O’Hagan’s five-star review
What we learned
Sotheby’s withdrew a “stolen” Banksy sculpture from auction
Tate Britain is planning to reveal another side of Aubrey Beardsley
Nan Goldin led a “die-in” protest at the V&A
Billy the Kid rides again … to auction
Artists of colour are breathing new life into figurative painting
Edo Brenes won the Cape/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize
Plymouth’s postwar architecture is being conserved
The world’s first printed Christmas card went on display at the Dickens museum
Two Rubens landscapes are to be reunited after more than 200 years
Photographers have been working at the heart of the Hong Kong protests
Female-led exhibitions will take over US museums ahead of the presidential election
Controversy still surrounds one of the 20th century’s greatest photographs
A Syrian artist criticised BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum’s Troy exhibition
Picasso’s two lovers went on show together at Tate Modern
A giant floating artwork that divided Australia is to get a sequel
The winner of the Guardian Illustration prize – for our Glasto look – was announced
The V&A acknowledged its new show on car design may alarm some visitors
We remembered photographer Terry O’Neill, chronicler of the 60s and 70s …
… also the man who shot the cover of the Beatles’ Rubber Soul album
Masterpiece of the week
Winter Landscape, c 1630, by Hendrick Avercamp
This painting of a frozen world reminds us how our planet is being changed. Before the Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century, Europe experienced a “little ice age” in the 1500s and 1600s. It was normal for rivers including the Thames and – more surprisingly – the Arno in Tuscany to freeze. Michelangelo was ordered to create a snowman for the Medici and Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted The Massacre of the Innocents as a snow scene. This is one of many paintings that follow Bruegel’s lead in relishing the magic of a winter whiteout. His realist art becomes a kind of abstraction as he portrays people as colourful blobs in a dazzling whiteness. Maybe one day such paintings will be preserved on a digital archive as evidence of what earth looked like in its habitable days.
• Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.
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