Exhibition of the week
Mark Wallinger
A mirrored ceiling eerily doubles the space of Sigmund Freud’s study and offers a view into the mysteries of the mind. Wallinger’s installation celebrates this likable museum’s 30th anniversary.
• Freud Museum, London, until 25 September.
The Scottish Endarkenment
Real fringe fun at the Edinburgh art festival in this gleefully gothic exploration of madness and the macabre in modern Scottish art, which exposes the nightmares of everyone from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Christine Borland.
• Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh, until 29 August.
Jonathan Owen
Appropriation art becomes a surrealist nightmare in Owen’s monstrous transformations of statues he bought at Christie’s.
• Burns Monument and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, until 28 August.
Surreal Encounters
The collectors who supported surrealism are remembered in an exhibition full of strange characters and stranger art.
• Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, until 11 September.
David Hockney
This sun-kissed series of Californian portraits is Hockney’s liveliest work in years.
• Royal Academy, London, until 2 October.
Masterpiece of the week
This dreamlike picture of the tragic hero Oedipus explaining the riddle of the Sphinx was painted years before Freud appropriated this myth as a complex. “What has four feet in the morning, two feet in the afternoon and three feat in the evening?” asks the Sphinx. Answer it as well as Oedipus and you get a bottle of Cinzano Bianco.
• National Gallery, London.
Image of the week
Bangladeshi photography and academic Gazi Nafis Ahmed spent a year with his country’s hidden gay community before documenting the scene in his Inner Face series. He told Sean O’Hagan about the friends he made and the threats he received – you can see more of his work here.
What we learned
Oliver Wainwright returns to Stratford to assess the legacy of London 2012
Here is the Olympic city as seen by the young people of Rio’s favelas
In Melbourne, a mural of Hillary Clinton has been painted over with a niqab
In Brighton, the London Eye’s i360 viewing tower opens after 13 years
Meanwhile in New York, a derelict army bathhouse has been turned into art
The Van Gogh Museum separates the artist’s myth, mystery and madness
X-rays have revealed a mysterious face hidden beneath a Degas portrait
And here’s the scientists explaining why a particle accelerator was involved
Kanye West wants to design furniture for Ikea – and Ikea has responded in kind
London artist Lucy Sparrow creates a classic New York corner store – in felt
Modernism on the coast: Le Corbusier and Eileen Gray shine at Cap Moderne
Cyborgs, ecosexuals and a bed made of bees: inside Perth’s strangest art show
Restoration of Sir John Soane’s country pad Pitzhanger reveals some killer paint
A Renaissance mystery adds to National Gallery vandalism fears
Tate Britain rehangs its finest Turners after their world tour
Punk, prams and carparks – photographers capture Britain’s class identity wars
Here is the story behind Khizr Khan mourning at Arlington cemetery
Tom Sheehan remembers talking Wilde while snapping a young Morrissey
Could this be the smallest but best-kept museum in the world?
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