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Exhibition of the week
Anish Kapoor
Mind-bending modern sculptures, including the sublime Sky Mirror, set in the elegant park of one of Britain’s most beautiful Palladian houses.
• Houghton Hall, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, from 12 July until 1 November.
Also showing
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize
Mark Neville’s surreal portraits of Brittany folk stand out for their humour and humanity in a shortlist that also includes Mohamed Bourouissa, Clare Strand and Anton Kusters.
• Photographers Gallery, London, 14 July until 20 September.
Radical Figures
The Gauguin-like art of Michael Armitage and the Picabia poses of Ryan Mosley’s fantastic creatures stand out in a manifesto for painting that also showcases Cecily Brown, Dana Schutz and more.
• Whitechapel Gallery, London, from 14 July until 30 August.
Masculinities
Men are taken apart and perhaps even put back together again in photographs by Catherine Opie, Laurie Anderson, Sunil Gupta and Isaac Julien.
• Barbican, London, from 13 July until 23 August.
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years
Yay, the early pots of Grayson Perry are now back on view until the new year.
• Holburne Museum, Bath, until 3 January.
Image of the week
Capturing in living colour the daily lives of black families in segregated America, photographer Gordon Parks’s work shocks all over again today, wrote the Observer critic Laura Cumming in her four-star review of an exhibition of his work at Alison Jacques Gallery in London. Gordon Parks: Part One runs until 1 August.
What we learned
Observer critics have picked the best summer culture
Boris Johnson has pledged £1.5bn lifeline to keep UK’s arts sector afloat …
… now the arts sector must avoid treading water
How Britain’s galleries have Covid-proofed themselves
How museums are documenting Black Lives Matter protests
Black architects are being excluded from public-sector projects
… and Ciaran McCrickard captured the eerie beauty of Britain’s abandoned playgrounds
Laura Kern has explored toxic masculinity in urban architecture
Far Side creator Gary publishes first new cartoons in 25 years
A skywriting project is targeting US culture of incarceration
The Notre Dame spire in Paris must be rebuilt exactly as it was, says chief architect
An art project has been launched in honour of Grenfell artist Khadija Saye
Salisbury Cathedral will reopen to tourists with an art extravaganza
I ❤️ NY logo designer Milton Glaser has died
Readers shared their lockdown art …
… and children share their drawings of what’s special to them
The great British art quiz visited the Government Art Collection, Leamington, Cornwall and Edinburgh (twice)
Masterpiece of the week
The Adoration of the Kings, 1564, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The powerful don’t get it easy in the undeceived art of Bruegel. The three kings who have come to see baby Jesus in this bleak interpretation of a usually warm subject are empty fools, protected by heavily armed soldiers whose pikes and halberds poke incongruously into the sky. A witness in thick spectacles implies no one here can see the redemptive truth of Christ’s coming. But the kings have brought luxurious gifts whose gold is that of vulgar earthly wealth rather than heavenly riches. Religious conflict and the military might of the Spanish Empire were torturing Bruegel’s Southern Netherlands (now Belgium) when this was painted. The hope of the Nativity seemed like a sick joke.
• National Gallery, London.
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