Exhibition of the week
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun
The powerful, eerie, gender-resisting surrealist photography of Claude Cahun is juxtaposed with the work of Turner prize winner Gillian Wearing.
• National Portrait Gallery, London, 9 March-29 May.
Also showing
Madonnas and Miracles
A look at the Renaissance through everyday objects that brought magic and beauty into Italian merchant’s homes.
• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 7 March–4 June.
Mark Wallinger
Identity and the psyche provide the fodder for Wallinger’s modern wit.
• Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, 4 March–4 June.
Sooni Taraporevala
Images of life in Mumbai over the last three decades.
• Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, 4 March–early 2018.
Josiah McElheny
The history of modernism reimagined in film, paintings, posters and other media.
• White Cube Bermondsey, London, until 13 April.
Masterpiece of the week
Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of the Infanta Isabella, about 1615
With her gigantic ruff collar posed against a fiery red abstract background, the Infanta escapes from reality into the realms of fairytale in this glamorous baroque exercise.
• National Gallery, London.
Image of the week
The La Lira Theatre Public Open Space, in Ripoll, Spain – one of the buildings by RCR Arquitectes, whose founders Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have this week been awarded architecture’s most prestigious award, the Pritzker prize. “They’ve demonstrated that unity of a material can lend such incredible strength and simplicity to a building,” said Australian architect Glenn Murcutt, chair of the Pritzker jury. “The collaboration of these three architects produces uncompromising architecture of a poetic level, representing timeless work that reflects great respect for the past, while projecting clarity that is of the present and the future.”
What we learned this week
Michelangelo’s naked Christ has come to Britain – we got an exclusive first look
Sean O’Hagan reviewed the Deutsche Börse photography prize – featuring Sophie Calle’s dead cat
De Stijl turned 100 – but still cannot touch the greats of abstract art
French artist Abraham Poincheval has been living inside a rock all week in a Paris gallery
It’s 30 years since Andy Warhol died – we should make him a saint
Rowan Moore discussed the joy of apartment living
Yet more art stolen by the Nazis is being returned to Poland
A pair of detectorists who gave up the hobby found wonderful iron age gold jewellery on their return
Get involved
Book now for a Guardian members’ event: a private view of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize at the Photographers’ Gallery in London.
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