Blackpool goes pop and Frieze invades Regent's Park

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Exhibition of the Week

Roy Lichtenstein
The superb Artist Rooms collection brings this most stylish and erudite of pop artists to Blackpool.
• Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, until 7 September.

Also showing

When I Sleep, 2018, by Tracey Emin. Photograph: Stephen Chung/Alamy

Frieze Sculpture
Tracey Emin, Lucy Skaer and Robert Indiana are among the artists whose wild and crazy works can be enjoyed in the elegant setting of Regent’s Park this summer.
• Regent’s Park, London, until 6 October.

Dineo Seshee Bopape
In her installation for this seaside town gallery, Bopape uses feathers, herbs, flowers and fruit to explore spirituality of the African diaspora.
• Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, until 8 September.

Stanley Kubrick
Very popular exhibition about the great director whose films are gorgeous, spooky masterpieces of modern art.
• Design Museum, London, until 17 September.

First Animals
A mysterious journey through the early evolution of life on Earth as revealed by rare and beautiful fossils.
• Oxford Museum of Natural History until 24 February.

Masterpiece of the week

The Annunciation 1307/8-11, Duccio, part of the group Maestà predella panels. — Photograph: National Gallery, London

The Annunciation, 1307/8–11, by Duccio
This little painting is more than 700 years old. It was created around the time Dante was writing his epic poem Inferno. Yet it’s as easy to understand and to be moved by it as if it had been painted now. A young woman is visited in her home by an angel who tells her she will give birth to the son of God. As Mary looks up from the religious manuscript she has been reading, the angel makes a gesture of blessing. There’s electricity between heaven and Earth in their impossible meeting. Their expressions and poses are restrained, but Duccio’s precocious command of three-dimensional space makes this drama gripping. Pink and purple gothic arches frame the kind of solid, earthly place that no one could have painted 100 years earlier – the real world, in all its magic.
• National Gallery, London.

Image of the week

Neil, shot by Enda Bowe, is on the shortlist for this year’s prize.

Neil, by Enda Bowe
An image of a young man looking out pensively across a south Belfast housing estate has been shortlisted for one of international photography’s most important awards, the Taylor Wessing prize. Irish photographer Enda Bowe shot this portrait for his current project, Love’s Fire Song, images of youth culture on either side of the peace walls. “Free from political and geographical context, the photographs speak of longing, yearning, aspirations and vulnerabilities of young people in Belfast today,” Bowe said.