Fruit scrumping, cavaliers and filth in Westminster

Fruit scrumping, cavaliers and filth in Westminster – the week in art

Exhibition of the week

Jorge Otero-Pailos: The Ethics of Dust
This latex cast of a medieval wall captures the dust and dirt of centuries of British parliamentary history. It is a timely artwork in the Palace of Westminster at a time when the mother of parliaments is threatened by architectural decay and public disillusion.
• Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster, London, until 10 September.

Also showing

Hurvin Anderson
Fruit scrumping and barbershops feature in Anderson’s “dub versions” of cultural history in an exhibition that explores his British and Jamaican heritage.
• New Art Exchange, Nottingham, from 2 July–18 September.

BP Portrait award
Oily in every sense, the quality of painting here is hardly mind-blowing, yet it is impressive to see how many people still want to set brush to canvas.
• National Portrait Gallery, London, until 4 September.

A Beautiful Disorder
Outdoor works by artists from Greater China, including Bi Rongrong, Cui Jie, Jennifer Ma Wen, Li Jinghu, Lu Pingyuan and more, in the leafy setting of this pastoral sculpture park.
• Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, 3 July–6th November.
Etel Adnan
Beirut-born artist whose paintings, poems, tapestries and texts bear witness to the anguish of modern history.
• Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, until 11 September.

Masterpiece of the week

Antony van Dyck – Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart (c. 1638)
This painting is haunted by the blood of civic strife. Both of these elegant young men – the very epitome of “cavaliers” – were soon to die fighting on the Royalist side in the English civil war. Van Dyck’s opulent, silky, portrait reminds us of a long ago time when peaceful Britain fell apart.
National Gallery, London WC2N.