Melting ice, 1920s graphics and Newcastle's finest – the week in art

A detail from a sketch by Richard Wilson of a new installation piece. Photograph: © The Artist. Courtesy Annely Juda Fine Art

Exhibition of the week

Richard Wilson
The experimental sculptor who gave modern British art one of its truly great works, his tank of reflective oil 20:50, shows new site-specific installations.
• Annely Juda, London, from 26 January-25 March

Also showing

Haris Epaminonda
Collages of Roman and Egyptian art and images of Cyprus feature in this meditative installation.
• Rodeo Gallery, London, until 18 February

Baltic 39/Figure Four
Newcastle’s fourth annual open-submission exhibition features a wide range of local artists.
• Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne , until 19 February

The New Line
An important collection of cutting-edge graphics from the 1920s and 30s featuring artists including László Moholy-Nagy.
• De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, until 12 March

William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland
Two powerful artists who share a passion for the history of South Africa.
• Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, until 19 February

Masterpiece of the week

Parmigianino, Portrait of a Collector (c 1523)

The art collector looks slyly to the side as he enjoys his treasures. Is he a scholar of the ancient world or just plain greedy? Parmigianino’s characterful portrait suggests his motives are less than pure. He looks like a tax collector counting coins.
• National Gallery, London

Image of the week

THAW by Timo Lieber, on show at Bonhams, London, 20–24 February. Photograph: Timo Lieber Photography

The Guardian dedicated Thursday to 24 hours of climate change coverage, and part of that was photographer Timo Lieber’s shots of the Arctic, where beautiful but hugely troubling pools of water are forming on the melting ice cap. “There are so many lakes, it’s scary. A landscape you’d expect to be pristine white is just littered with blue,” Lieber says.

What we learned this week

Oliver Wainwright spoke to Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, whose building in Lima has been named the best new building in the world

Tom Seymour spoke to Richard Renaldi about his photographs of gay clubbers in New York

Richard Prince disowned an artwork he sold to Ivanka Trump – but he can’t uncouple himself so easily

Alan Parker spoke about his transition from film-making to painting

We looked at the work of female street photographers on Instagram

The 40-year-old Centre Pompidou is getting a £90m facelift

Ahead of the National Gallery’s exhibition, we looked at Sebastiano and why he left debauched Venice for the Vatican

Julia Peyton-Jones, once head of the Serpentine Gallery, became a mother for the first time at 64

As the promise of a “hard Brexit” grew this week, we asked: can London’s cosmopolitan art scene survive?

After last week’s heavy speculation, Maria Balshaw was officially confirmed as the Tate’s new director

Zaha Hadid left £67m in her will

Sotheby’s is lining up an erotic art auction next month, with works by Picasso, Marc Quinn and Egon Schiele

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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