Exhibition of the week
George Shaw
Humbrol model aircraft paints take on the masters of oil painting as Turner nominee Shaw shows off the results of his National Gallery residency.
• National Gallery, London, 11 May–30 October.
Also showing
Painting With Light
The story of how photography inspired or destroyed – depending on your viewpoint – British art in the Victorian age.
• Tate Britain, London, 11 May-25 September.
The British Landscape Tradition
As summer starts (fingers crossed) here comes an artistic outing in painted meadows and glades, to look at British pastorals from the 18th century to the surrealist age.
• Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 11 May-26 June.
Bert Hardy
Striking black and white prints by this Picture Post photographer, who covered D-day and bore witness at Bergen-Belsen.
• Photographers’ Gallery, London, 13 May-3 July.
Master Strokes
Free display of Dutch and Flemish drawings from the likes of Rubens, Van Dyck and Rembrandt, no less. Let’s hope my daughter is allowed to sketch them.
• V&A Museum, London, 14 May-13 November.
Masterpiece of the week
The melancholy autumnal forest landscape in this magnificently unfinished painting is so moving and poetic that you barely notice the poor man with a stag’s head being torn apart by his own hounds.
• National Gallery, London.
Image of the week
What we learned
This summer’s blockbuster shows of art, photography and design
And some fun al fresco art events that will also make you think
Marisol, forgotten star of the pop art scene, died at the age of 85
Grayson Perry want boys to know they are allowed to cry
Ai Weiwei is making his first feature film about the refugee crisis
If not electrifying, Mona Hatoum’s new Tate show is very current
Three LS Lowry paintings owned by Cilla Black are to be auctioned
Some early female pioneers of photography are back in the spotlight
Howard Hodgkin says he often felt like “an outcast in the art world”
A century on, dada’s spirit has been co-opted by con artists
Martin Creed is preaching a message of understanding in New York City
Meanwhile Frieze New York shows it best face – and ass
SFMOMA’s long touted extension is “a gigantic merengue with a hint of Ikea”
These between-the-wars prints by British artists look as beautiful as ever
Two Swiss artists have recreated iconic photographs with craft materials
Joana Chomali has photographed modern African women in their grandmother’s clothes
Wiktoria Wojciechowska captured Chinese cyclists caught in the rain
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