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Exhibition of the week
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
An overdue fresh look at this modernist pioneer who helped invent both Dada’s punk ethos and abstract art’s spiritual calm.
Tate Modern, London, 15 July-17 October.
Also showing
British Art Show 9
Michael Armitage’s paintings of surreal nature, Tai Shani’s Dracula and a talking dog are among the highlights in this survey of the state of British art.
Aberdeen Art Gallery, 10 July-10 October, then touring.
Horace Walpole’s Goldfish Bowl
A small but fascinating exhibition about the Chinese porcelain bowl in which an 18th-century cat drowned, inspiring a poem by Thomas Gray and beautiful illustrations by William Blake.
Strawberry Hill House, London, until 30 September.
Albion Fields
Ai Weiwei, Richard Long, Ryan Gander and more show their art in a field for summer – all very folkloric and hippy, except it’s all on sale.
Albion Fields, Oxfordshire, inaugural exhibition until 25 September.
Rachel Kneebone
Like a cross between Rodin and the Chapmans, this ceramic sculptor creates orgies and horrors in porcelain.
White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, until 4 September.
Image of the week
Jasper Goodall captures the deep, dark loveliness of Britain’s woods and moors at night. The nocturnal landscapes in his exhibition Twilight’s Path, at London’s MMX Gallery, evoke the feeling of reconnection many Britons have experienced as they explored lonely and forgotten places during months of pandemic isolation.
What we learned
Damien Hirst’s cherry blossom paintings might please his mum
Wall colours at Tate Britain’s Paula Rego show are a ‘random, neurotic assault’ …
… and Rego told the Observer: ‘I make women the protagonists because I am one’
The Prix Pictet shortlist offers challenging and lyrical works inspired by fire
The Princess of Wales sculpture is the latest example of our strained relationship with statues …
… while the toppling of the giant statue of Saddam Hussein was a myth created by American soldiers
Researchers have found 14 living descendants of Leonardo da Vinci
Australian photographer Wayne Quilliam has distilled his work with Indigenous peoples into a book
The V&A is to highlight the creativity of African fashion designers in a 2022 exhibition
An abandoned labour camp in Estonia was Rafał Milach’s best shot
Melbourne is experiencing augmented reality art …
… and Edinburgh has a poo emoji on its skyline
Abraham Poincheval spent a week inside a sculpture of himself
Exhibits breed like rabbits at California’s Bunny Museum
The Public Library of the Year award shortlist has been announced – an architectural feast …
… and Australian sustainable architecture designs have been recognised
Tove is an an impassioned portrait of the Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson
The computer restoration of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch shows the benefits and risks of AI …
… but Manchester’s Poet Slash Artist exhibition makes the future of art seem bright
Alison Morton was one of the finest linen weavers …
… and artist Elaine Wilson explored how women look at themselves and are looked at
Pat Wingshan Wong traded sketches for stories at Billingsgate fish market in London
‘Exquisite’ studies of birds by ornithologist John Gould have been banned from export
and Pieter Hugo’s outsiders are on show at Arles photography festival
We remembered the artist Elaine Wilson
Masterpiece of the week
Colonel Alastair Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry, 1812, by Henry Raeburn
This is a beautiful illustration of how modern nationalism was born in the Romantic age. Raeburn was Scotland’s greatest Romantic painter, a visionary of glen and loch who turned his portraits into symbolically and emotionally charged images of states of mind. Here he wallows in nostalgia and Highland tradition in a tartan-themed picture of a military man and landowner who was a friend of the historical writer Sir Walter Scott. The archaic clan weapons on the wall connect modern military skills with ancestral prowess and proud national myth. Raeburn is doing in paint what Scott did in his novels and giving Scotland new pride in its past.
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.
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