Greek mythology, Kipling's father and Matisse's scissors – the week in art

Poetic and haunting … Michael Andrews’ The Colony Room I, (1962). Photograph: © the estate of Michael Andrews. Courtesy James Hyman Gallery, London

Exhibition of the week

Michael Andrews
Poetic and haunting paintings by a major British artist ripe for rediscovery.
• Gagosian Gallery, Grosvenor Hill, London, 20 January–25 March

Also showing

Lockwood Kipling
A window on cultural life in 19th-century Punjab through the eyes of Rudyard Kipling’s artistic father.
• V&A, London, 14 January–2 April

Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Everything changes, and Ovid’s retelling of Greek mythology written in ancient Rome has inspired many artistic transformations, as this free display shows.
• Wallace Collection, London, 19 January–2 April

Matisse
A Hayward touring exhibition of the scintillating art that Matisse made with paper and scissors in his late years.
• Gerald Moore Gallery, London, 14 January–11 February

Elisabeth Frink
Sculpture and drawings by this artist preoccupied with the violence of history.
• Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, 19 January–7 May

Masterpiece of the week

John Constable’s The Cornfield (1826).
Photograph: De Agostini/Getty Images

John Constable, The Cornfield, 1826
This timeless pastoral scene transposes Arcadia to the English countryside as a shepherd boy drinks from a stream and his dog keeps an eye on the sheep. Clouds billow and darken in a superbly realistic threatening of rain. This great landscape manages to be both matter of fact and captivatingly mythic.
• National Gallery, London.

Image of the week

Hungarian refugees at the border of Austria and Hungary (1956). Photograph: Ata Kandó / Nederlands Fotomuse

The 103-year-old photographer Ata Kando was interviewed this week for our My Best Shot feature, about this image of Hungarian Gypsies in a refugee camp in 1956. “They fled Hungary and the Russian army because of the discrimination they suffered after the uprising failed. Gypsies have always been targeted in Hungary, and things were no different under Soviet rule. Had they not left they would have been executed,” she said.

What we learned this week

We interviewed Joel Sternfeld about his sinister yet witty images of America

And we interviewed Theaster Gates about black power, poverty, Chicago and more

Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman and other big US art names are calling for an “art strike” on Trump inauguration day

Tate is lining up Maria Balshaw as the successor to Nicholas Serota as director

Manchester’s £110m Factory arts venue has got the go-ahead – and will be Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s first UK building

Hull’s Ferens Gallery is reopening this week after a £5.2m refurb, in time for the City of Culture celebrations

George Lucas’s long-mooted Museum of Narrative Art has finally found a home, in Los Angeles

New York’s High Line will soon start hosting art installations on a Trafalgar Square-style plinth

The Dr Oetker company, known for their frozen pizzas, have returned a painting to Jewish owners who were forced to flee Germany during the second world war

Stonehenge is getting a road tunnel underneath it – which will hopefully enhance its mythic grandeur

Oliver Wainwright went to the Design Museum’s pop-up exhibition on ageing, New Old

There’s a new book on Bosch and his Garden of Earthly Delights, which shows this painting is as much about Renaissance curiosity as it is heaven and hell

Central St Martins has created an art school for everyone at Tate Modern

Get involved

Book now for a Guardian members’ event: a private view of the Australia’s Impressionists exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.

Our A-Z of Readers’ Art series continued this week, looking at your artworks with the theme O is for Oracle – check out the best entries here.

We’ve also launched the theme for next month: P is for Portraiture. Send in your artworks with that theme, and the best will be exhibited in next month’s gallery.

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