Exhibition of the week
Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
A glimpse into the uniquely well preserved tomb of a sickly young pharaoh who is far more famous today than he was in antiquity.
• Saatchi Gallery, London, 2 November to3 May.
Also showing
Hayley Newman
An exhibition about the vanity of words and the power of silence that seems fitting for the General Election campaign.
• Matt’s Gallery, London, 2-25 November.
Howard Hodgkin
Poetic prints that express Hodgkin’s intense memories of people and places.
• Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, 31 October to 24 November.
August Sander
A disturbingly acute photographic portrait of German society on the eve of Nazi rule.
• National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 26 October to 1 March.
Charlotte Salomon
The unbearably moving, life-affirming vision of an artist murdered in Auschwitz.
• Jewish Museum, London, 8 November to 1 March.
Image of the week
Nothing to see: China’s glass bridges have been quietly closed off in the northern province of Hebei amid safety fears. Among the 32 see-through bridges, walkways and mountain viewing platforms that have been cordoned off is Hongyagu bridge, at 488 vertigo-inducing metres, the world’s longest such glass structure.
What we learned
Jacob Rees-Mogg had an early career as avant-garde film star
Angry young architects are unionising
The coded language of art can be a powerful thing
… and great painters stoke passions
Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has won the Nomura art award
The artist known as What won Australia’s $150,000 portrait prize
Celia Paul is telling her own story, without lover Lucian Freud
The craft of Pakistan’s Sindh province is a life’s work for one couple
If you can’t afford a trip to Paris, see Leonardo da Vinci at the pictures instead
Douglas Coupland wants to cure the world of sleep deprivation
Queen’s Brian May has finally completed his diabolic French art collection
France’s “kitchen Cimabue” sold for €24m
Caroline Walker searched for the invisible women of London
Modern playgrounds are mollycoddling our children
Warhol’s trans portraits will come to Tate Modern
Magnum is selling its “hidden” images
The Getty Center prepared for the Californian wildfires
Tuvan culture is making a comeback
Young photographers have talent
The gruesome fallout of the Gulf wars is shown in 250 works by 75 artists
Masterpiece of the week
The Finding of Moses, Nicolas Poussin, 1651
This French painter, who fell in love with Rome and spent his life there, was a serious student of archaeology. In this picture he has a crack at recreating ancient Egypt, as far as the knowledge of his time will allow. The city outside which baby Moses is found looks at first sight like a standard vision of classical antiquity, with Greek temples and a Roman amphitheatre. But it also has Egyptian obelisks, known to Poussin because several had been brought to imperial Rome and re-erected by Renaissance and baroque Popes. Most impressively, he includes a distant view of the pyramids at Giza. This, too, is based on his adopted city where he could study the pyramid of Cestius, built by a wealthy ancient Roman in emulation of Egyptian monuments. Both Cestius and Poussin bear witness to Europe’s enduring Egyptomania.
• National Gallery, London.
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