[ad_1]
Exhibition of the week
David Batchelor
This fine artist of colour celebrates the centenary of the Bauhaus in his own idiosyncratic way.
• Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, 25 July to 25 August.
Also showing
Stories for An Uncertain World
New commissions for the Edinburgh art festival include a film by Rosalind Nashashibi, political wallpaper by Nathan Coley and a public intervention by Alfredo Jaar.
• Various venues, Edinburgh, 25 July to 25 August.
Last Supper in Pompeii
This eerie journey to Pompeii on the eve of destruction reveals what people ate and drank in the city’s last hours.
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 25 July to 12 January.
Grayson Perry
Tapestries in which Perry tells the story of a character named Julie Cope are examined as craft as well as art.
• Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, 25 July to 2 November.
Leonardo da Vinci
Don’t miss the most beautiful and profound works of art in Britain, and arguably the world.
• Queen’s Gallery, London, until 13 October.
Masterpiece of the week
A Woman in Bed (detail), circa 1647, by Rembrandt
This painting of a woman pulling back the red curtain of her bed and looking out at – who? The artist? – is not so much an erotic scene as a sensitive study of vulnerability. Rembrandt focuses on the intimacy and mystery of the moment, as she waits for her companion. She is alone even as she greets her visitor. Her nakedness is emotional as well as fleshly. This is an anxious, unnerving depiction of the self as it is exposed to the tender mercies of the night.
• Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.
Image of the week
Buzz Aldrin on the moon, 20 July 1969, by Neil Armstrong
Were the Apollo astronauts the most influential photographers ever? The celebrated “moonrise” picture by Apollo 8’s Bill Anders is credited with kicking off the modern environmental movement. While Neil Armstrong’s 70mm photo of Buzz Aldrin – 50 years old this week – took the imaginations of all humankind, adults and children, to another plane. Read the full story.
What we learned
The Stirling prize contenders were announced …
… and we visit its first council-housing contender, in Norwich
Ghana’s Ibrahim Mahama talked about his ghostly Manchester installation
Helene Schjerfbeck’s Nordic noir is a tough watch
Banksy turns out to be Britons’ favourite painter of all time
Evangelia Kranioti documents a world of lost souls
If you want to find rare Roman artefacts, paddle your canoe
London’s “Tulip tower” plan came tumbling down …
… while past architectural treasures are slowly rotting
Loadsamoney! Our economics editor invests in the Bank of England’s anniversary show
The British Museum will trace Islam’s impact on western art …
… while America’s railroad was built with Chinese muscle
Young artists are aiming to move Caribbean art “away from trauma”
Fashion designer Liam Hodges is going back to futurism
We set out to find the world’s most vertical city
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may get an underwater gallery
Leo Villareal has lit up the Thames
Little-known British surrealist Ithell Colquhoun could get a boost from the Tate
April Dawn Alison takes a good look at herself
Zack Seckler has a wild time flying with the birds
A new exhibition examines how we see science
Queen Victoria made the monarchy feminist
London’s Charles Dickens Museum acquired the recently found portrait of the young writer
Photographers are exploring a different side of Beirut
Mitch Jones turns self-harm into an art in new show AutoCannibal
The LAPD raided its true crime archive
Don’t forget
To follow us on Twitter: @GdnArtandDesign.
Sign up to the Art Weekly newsletter
If you’d like to receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here.
[ad_2]
READ SOURCE