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Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark

Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures

Exhibitionist 1109: The Pre-Raphaelites And Italy
The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy, Oxford
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sumptuous portrait of a redhead, Monna Vanna, is part of The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, from 16 September until 5 December
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist 1109: Jolyon Laycock
Jolyon Laycock, Birmingham
What is the President Saying? is part of an installation that revisits Jolyon Laycock's historically specific yet still perfectly relevant "audio-visual collage" of 1974, This Could Happen To You. On at Ikon Eastside, 11 and 12 September
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist 1109: Laura Belem
Laura Belém, Liverpool
Brazilian artist Laura Belém's The Temple of a Thousand Bells is a sculptural mass of 1,000 translucent glass bells, with an evocative polyphonic soundtrack. On at St James' Cemetery Oratory until 28 November
Photograph: /Alex Wolkowicz
Exhibitionist 1109: Lygia Clark
Lygia Clark, London
This is Brazilian artist Lygia Clark's first show in the UK since the 1960s. It includes this work, Bicho – Caranguejo (Creature – Crab). Clark likened these hinged aluminium works to dorsal fins, although their folding planes also call to mind origami creatures. At Alison Jaques Gallery until 9 October
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist 1109: Michael Fullerton
Michael Fullerton, London
With their delicate light and careful staging, Fullerton's portraits hark back to the genteel days of Reynolds and Gainsborough. His latest show, Columbia, includes sculptures, paintings, screen prints and moving images in a museum-style display. At Chisenhale Gallery until 24 October
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist 1109: Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson
Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Liverpool
The collaborative duo present sculptural catalysts for imagining unnerving scenarios. The purpose of The Hunters – 12 coils of rope hanging on wall brackets – is left unstated, but could suggest rescue or restraint. At Ceri Hand Gallery from 16 September unti 16 October
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist 1109: Thomas Scheibitz
Thomas Scheibitz, London
While he shows new work at west London's Sprüth Magers, at east London's Drawing Room Scheibitz's sketchbooks and drawings by artists who inspire him are on show – including Untitled (1991), by fellow German Hirschvogel, whose inky gremlins hark back to gothic folk tales. At The Drawing Room, 16 September until 31 October; and at Sprüth Magers, 17 September until 30 October
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist 1109: Postwar American Art
Postwar American Art, Dublin
The Irish conceptual artist and writer Brian O'Doherty moved to the States and married the artist and art historian Barbara Novak in 1960. Thereafter they became friends with postwar American art notables and amassed a considerable collection of work, which has now been donated to the IMMA. Above, George Segal preparing to cast Barbara Novak for Street Crossing (1992). At the Irish Museum of Modern Art until 27 February
Photograph: Donald Lokuta
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