Exhibition of the Week: Allen Jones
The most controversial of 1960s British pop artists brings his sexually charged art into the 21st century with a retrospective that may cause a few fireworks.
• Royal Academy, London W1J from 13 November until 25 January.
Other exhibitions this week
Peder Balke
Eerie northern landscapes freeze your senses in the art of this 19th-century Norwegian pioneer.
• National Gallery, London WC2N from 12 November until 12 April.
The Serving Library
This playground of artistic and pop cultural ephemera reinveints the idea of the library for an age of instant information about everything.
• Tate Liverpool, Liverpool L3 from 7 November until 8 February.
Gavin Turk
A retrospective of Turk’s neon sculptures to light up the winter days.
• New Art Centre, East Winterslow, Salisbury SP5 from 8 November until 8 February.
Remaking Picasso’s Guernica
Picasso’s great 1937 painting is still the most powerful denunciation of modern war. This exhibition documents an attempt to recreate it as a textile banner protesting the conflicts of today.
• Pallant House Gallery, Chichester PO19 from 8 November until 15 February.
Masterpiece of the week
Bronzino, An Allegory with Venus and Cupid (about 1545)
Allen Jones was not the first artist to make eerily cold images of sex and eroticism as this Renaissance masterpiece of perversity reveals. The goddess Venus is being made love to by her adolescent son, Cupid.
• National Gallery, London WC2N.
Image of the week
What we learned this week
Jonathan Jones wants UK museums to return their ‘cultural booty’
Australia is churning out stunning buildings year after year
Your animal artworks are seriously good
The people of Detroit still believe in their future
The world’s most extreme performance artists were photographed by Manuel Vason
Zaha Hadid is still getting flak for her Tokyo Olympic stadium designs
New Anthony Gormleys are going to crop up all over the UK
William Klein told us about his return to New York
And finally …
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