Exhibition of the week
Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison
Oscar Wilde’s incarceration in Reading jail after falling foul of the Marquess of Queensberry is remembered by artists and writers including Steve McQueen and Colm Tóibín at the prison itself.
• HM Prison Reading, until 30 October.
Also showing
You Say You Want a Revolution?
The age of the Doors and the Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter is brought to life in this exhibition about the revolutionary pop culture of the late 1960s.
• V&A, London, 10 September until 26 February.
Giuseppe Penone
This leading figure of Italy’s arte povera movement in the 1960s is still making ecologically sensitive art for the 21st century.
• Marian Goodman Gallery, London, 8 September until 22 October.
Nicolas Party
Very surreal cat paintings – I kid you not – are the latest from Glasgow’s radical art scene.
• Modern Institute, Glasgow, 10 September until 29 October.
Marcus Harvey
Grotesque images of British history and identity make perfect art for a Brexit summer’s end.
• Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, until 16 October.
Image of the week
What we learned
We picked our best art, design and photography shows of the new season
We also rounded up the best US art exhibitions this autumn, er , fall
From astronaut coffee to DIY heart surgery: the designs of the year shortlist is out
Bjork Digital opens in London … and the singer on what inspires her
Lars Jans has built a 3,500-gallon warning to humanity in Holoscenes
Wild and free: inside the home of Sue Dunkley, pop art’s forgotten gem
The V&A announces details of its Pink Floyd show – do rock’s old masters belong in a museum?
A Leipzig flat made famous in a Robert Capa photo becomes a poignant memorial
A Zaha Hadid pavilion has been erected at Chatsworth House
Perhaps the New York Times were wrong to write off old masters
Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns were quite the trio
‘I like drawing beautiful things, beautiful people,’ says Luke Edward Hall
Arthur Streeton’s Sydney Harbour painting has sold at auction for AU$2m (£1.134m)
Tate was paid a ‘paltry’ £350,000 a year by BP, new figures reveal
Time photographer Joakim Eskildsen documents life below the US poverty line
Meet the amazing artists making women of colour truly seen
Susanne von Meiss has a truly alluring photography collection
Beefcakes, monkeys and bodybuilders – Bob Mizer’s muscle men
Facebook banned Hans Holbein’s hand … but there are sexier digits in art
Which of these amazing castles in the sky would you like to live or work in?
Get involved
‘Concrete can be beautiful’: readers’ modernist American architecture photos
Side by side – your art on the theme of juxtaposition
K is for knowledge – share your new artwork now
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