Exhibition of the week: Thomas Struth
Landscape photographs by a serious and thought-provoking artist.
• Marian Goodman Gallery, London W1F, until 6 June.
Other exhibitions this week
Richard Billingham
Panoramic photographs of the countryside by this sensitive artist.
• Towner, Eastbourne, until 28 June.
Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr
Two contemporary masters of photographic reportage brilliantly observe English foibles.
• Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, until 7 June.
Emily Allchurch
A photographic recreation of a painting of Manchester in 1910 juxtaposes past and present, paintbrush and lens.
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, until 7 June.
Picturing Venice
Turner and Sickert are among the stars of this survey of the shimmering city observed.
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, until 27 September.
Masterpiece of the week
Giovanni Bellini – Doge Leonardo Loredan (1501-2)
The light of Venice warms and softens the golden features of its elected ruler, who seems to float in the watery city’s blue air. This is Bellini’s answer to the Mona Lisa, and one of the greatest portraits of the Renaissance.
• National Gallery, London WC2N.
Image of the week
What we learned this week
That Myuran Sukumaran’s death-row paintings cry out against a monstrous inhumanity
That art students have made their own alternative election posters
And here are their best – inspired by Nirvana, Beyoncé, rave posters and Rosie the riveter
That after 30 years of punking art-world sexism, the Guerrilla Girls have a new target: billionaires
That Jackson Pollock made a mean apple pie
... and how he spattered his way to fame
How Peter Kennard became political dynamite with his Blair Iraq selfie
On the 40th anniversary of its end, here’s the Vietnam War captured in colour
Developers, up yours! Here are the best anti-gentrification postcards
What happened when Orhan Pamuk met his hero, Anselm Kiefer
That Betty Willis, the woman who shaped the Las Vegas skyline, has passed away
That the Bible’s gone from hot to not in the art world
How the artist Theaster Gates bought a hardware store – then turned it into hard cash
That a marble marvel was destroyed in the blaze at Clandon Park
That Clare Strand destroys her work for fun – and really seems inspired by The Crystal Maze
That Le Corbusier was a nudist in later life
And finally ...
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