Exhibition of the week
Lee Miller and Picasso
This exhibition explores the friendship between photographer and model Lee Miller and Pablo Picasso, the greatest painter of the 20th century. Picasso portrayed Miller six times, and she photographed him 1,000 times. The third character in the story is Roland Penrose – Miller’s husband, Picasso’s biographer and the man who brought some of the best surrealist art to Britain.
• Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 23 May-6 September
Other exhibitions this week
Photo London
Sebastião Salgado and Rut Blees Luxemburg are among the stars of this new photography art fair involving many galleries from Britain and beyond.
• Somerset House, London, 21-24 May
Howard Hodgkin
The luscious and lyrical master shows a single, big new painting whose brushstrokes fall like a sigh in a space pregnant with suggestion. Once more with feeling.
• New Art Centre, Salisbury, 23 May-26 July
Karen Kilimnik
Dutch Delftware and still lifes are the starting points for Kilimnik’s new paintings.
• Sprüth Magers, London, 20 May-20 June
Rodin, Brancusi, Moore
This show brings together photographs taken by three of the definitive modern sculptors of their own works. It should be fascinating.
• Waddington Custot Galleries, London, 22 May-11 July
Masterpiece of the week
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Francisco de Goya – The Doctor (1779)
Goya delighted the Spanish court with tapestry designs that vividly create a world of peasant life and carnival fun. Yet in this tapestry design – a rarity in this country, for most are in the Prado, Madrid – there is an underlying anxiety. The doctor, a rational scientific man sworn to help others, tries to warm up at a brazier on a winter’s journey, presumably to see a patient. To do good is to catch cold – the bitter humour of Goya’s darker works is anticipated by this bright pastoral.
• Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Image of the week
What we learned this week
And how it could hold its $179m world title for a decade
And that Fox News censored the breasts Picasso painted
That Greece dropped the option to take legal action in the Parthenon marbles row
And why Greece’s claim on the Parthenon marbles was romantic, but doomed and false
That the Turner prize 2015 shortlist is three women – and a housing estate
And why it’s an end to the same-old same-old
What Adrian Searle made of Venice Biennale
What David Hockney’s new work inspired by LA looks like
That Manchester’s new £25m arts venue home is a dour affair
What it looks like inside Greece’s ghost factories
Why we’re still up in arms about the mystery of the Venus de Milo
What reporters look like delivering terrible news
How Tate Modern is still managing to deliver the shock of the new as it hits 15
Who gave the world affordable art
What New York’s most fabulous drag queens looked like in the 90s
And all about Laurent Chehere’s flying houses
And finally …
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