Exhibition of the week
Love is Enough: William Morris and Andy Warhol
Two apparently utterly different artists – one a champion of craft and communism, the other a prophet of the ready-made and capitalism – have more in common than we think according to this exhibition’s curator Jeremy Deller. Fascinating.
• Modern Art Oxford, Oxford OX1 from 6 December until 8 March
Other exhibitions this week
William Blake
A trinity of radical artists in Oxford is completed by this survey of the great Romantic poet, artist and visionary.
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford OX1 from 4 December until 1 March
Drawn by Light
The story of photography as seen through the Royal Photographic Society collection.
• Science Museum, London SW7 from 2 December until 1 February
Stan Douglas
A retrospective of the seminal Canadian video artist.
• Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh EH1 until 15 February
Pipilotti Rist
An immersive new video installation by this fun, subversive artist.
• Hauser and Wirth, London W1S and Bruton, Somerset until 10 January
Masterpiece of the week
Leonardo da Vinci – The Burlington House Cartoon (c 1499-1500)
In Florence at the start of the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci had an exhibition of a single, unfinished work of art – a “cartoon” or full-size sketch of a religious picture. This is probably it. If so, it is not just one of the most beautiful and compelling drawings of all time, but a document of the intellectual radicalism of the Renaissance – for people came to see an idea in progress, a shadowy invention of the mind.
• National Gallery, London WC2N
Image of the week
What we learned this week
How good photography actually is at capturing conflict, as a new exhibition of war photography opens
That Tate has teamed up with Minecraft
How design duo Hipgnosis turned Mick Jagger into a goat – and Peter Gabriel into the Vitruvian Man
That the documentary about David Hockney is hitting the screens
That a new show of Post Pop art is pumped full of shockers, from penis pasta to Piss Christ
How a band of Liverpool locals have taken control of their long-neglected streets
That a museum in Switzerland accepted part of the Nazi art horde, with “sorrow”
... and why the haunting Nazi art treasure trove deserves to be publicly seen
What the first art to explore the horror of concentration camps was
That a photographer has channelled David Lynch to create disturbingly creepy dreamscapes
How one man in the DRC made people show him their secrets
Why Greece has reclaimed El Greco four hundred years after his death
What the world’s most iconic buildings look like emerging from the shadows
That a woman makes her friends recreate the moments they met for a poignant photography project
