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Exhibition of the week
Moving to Mars
Can humanity find a new home on Mars? That provocative sci-fi solution to our woes is explored in this glimpse of a possible future.
• Design Museum, London, 18 October to 23 February.
Also showing
Bridget Riley
Electrifying works of psychedelic genius by the greatest British abstract artist since JMW Turner.
• Hayward Gallery, London, 23 October to 26 January.
Elizabeth Price
Melancholy histories by a truly powerful video artist and deserving Turner prize-winner.
• Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 25 October to 1 March.
Albert Oehlen
Spookily ambiguous daubs by one of Germany’s inexhaustible supply of brilliant modern painters.
• Serpentine Gallery, London, until 12 January.
Mark Bradford
Cerberus, the monster dog of Hades in Greek myth, is the sinister inspiration for LA artist Bradford’s new abstract paintings.
• Hauser & Wirth, London, until 21 December.
Image of the week
Faith Ringgold’s visceral painting, American People Series #20: Die’, forms part of a major “rebalancing” project at New York’s Museum of Modern Art that has massively boosted work by women and artists of colour. Read the full story
What we learned
New York’s MoMA unveiled its inclusive rehang
More than 200 English sites have been added to the Heritage at Risk register
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had sisters too
The Paris art scene is getting a Brexit boost
… and the Vitruvian Man can go see for himself
Tokyo showed off its brand new Olympic venues
David LaChapelle went all the way to Hawaii for coffee
Carlton Ward snapped a panther in Florida – and triggered a rescue mission
Norwich’s Stirling prize-winning estate may have to restrict visitors
America’s neon signs need to be saved
David Hockney was confident from the start
Norwich city council want to show the world around Goldsmith Street
Leeds’ industrial glory has been immortalised in a comic strip
Haus of Dizzy has brought a new meaning to ‘statement earrings’
Howard Grey’s Windrush portraits lay undeveloped for 50 years
A Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix has sold
The winners of the Female in Focus awards were announced
We took a closer look at London transport’s seats
Australia’s $150,000 Doug Moran portrait prize unveiled its finalists
… as Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art got the feng shui treatment
Elizabeth Peyton reminded us how the 90s looked
Historians pinned down a new Iwo Jima hero
Naked women would have cost Michael Joseph £10 more
Soho’s slow transformation is chronicled in a new photography show
We learned more about Sicily’s stolen Caravaggio
We remembered Charles Jencks and his cosmic gardens
… and Canada’s colour photography pioneer Fred Herzog
Masterpiece of the week
Christ Washing the Disciples’ Feet, c.1575-80, by Jacopo Tintoretto
Damaged and darkened by time and even partly repainted, this panoramic painting still has a smoky power and presence that stays with you. In fact it’s one of the most oddly unforgettable masterpieces in Britain. Tintoretto was a younger contemporary of Titian who took 16th-century Venetian art into new realms of mysticism. He was a far more passionate Christian than either Titian or his rival Veronese, and that intensity is what makes this brooding scene so atmospheric. Christ, the son of God, abases himself. Tintoretto paints this not as a realistic scene but a vision he is sharing with us – a sublime moment of sepulchral drama in the gathering dark.
• National Gallery, London
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