Exhibition of the week
Georg Baselitz: Belle Haleine
Witty, provocative and accomplished erotica by the great German artist.
• Cristea Roberts, London, until 22 December
Also showing
New Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries
Artistic responses to the horrors of war, as collected and commissioned by this uneasy museum of the modern world.
• Imperial War Museum, London, from 10 November
Rebecca Salter and James Gillray
The current president of the Royal Academy of Arts and scabrous satirist Gillray show at the home of one of Britain’s greatest artists.
• Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury from 11 November until 10 March
Discover Liotard and the Lavergne Family Breakfast
A close look at key works by the 18th-century Swiss painter Jean-Etienne Liotard.
• National Gallery, London, from 16 November until 3 March
Taylor-Wessing Photo Portrait prize
See the winners and also-rans in this roundup of what’s happening in photographic portraiture. What sets these pics apart from your own selfies?
• National Portrait Gallery, London, until 25 February
Image of the week
From women crying out in labour pain to a family made of meringue (above), the Women in Revolt! show at Tate Britain, London, is full of wit and collective anger. It couldn’t be more timely, says Adrian Searle. Read his full review.
What we learned
A US museum postponed an Islamic art exhibition because of the Israel-Hamas war
Picasso’s paintings can still fetch a pretty penny
Seaweed can be turned into high fashion, art, even shoes
A splash of colour can bring the most abandoned houses back to life
You can travel the world without leaving Wales thanks an art extravaganza
Aged 85, Arvie Smith is ‘flexing his muscles’ and taking on New York
You can learn a lot about famous paintings by looking at their backs and frames
Sir Peter Blake is excited by the ‘magic’ possibilities of AI in art
Masterpiece of the week
The Origin of the Milky Way by Jacopo Tintoretto, c1575
The Venetian painter Tintoretto was a sceptic about Greek mythology. A deeply religious man, he often suggests these old stories of gods and lovers are a bit silly. In his version of Leda and the Swan, for instance, in which Jupiter takes the form of a swan to have a surreal sexual encounter, he depicts Leda with a collection of other animals waiting in her bedroom. But here he plays it straight, inspired and exhilarated by the myth that the Milky Way, our galaxy, is actually a trail of divine milk spilt by the goddess Juno. This cosmic origin story is played out in a flowing cascade of floating silks and silvery clouds in the deep blue sky where the gods circle one another as majestically as planets.
• National Gallery, London
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