Punks and pub crawls – the week in art

The Image as Burden (1993) by Marlene Dumas. Click here to see full image. Photograph: © Marlene Dumas

Exhibition of the week

Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden
Powerful, erotic, troubling ... Marlene Dumas is a painter of our time.
Tate Modern, London SE1 from 5 February until 10 May

Other exhibitions this week

Lynda Benglis
The first British museum survey of one of the defining artists of post-minimalism, with a genius for sloppy, gooey sculptures that look like ice cream or custard.
Hepworth, Wakefield from 6 February until 1 July

Christian Marclay
New sounds and images from the creator of the iconic 21st-century artwork The Clock. Featuring weekend performances with London Sinfonietta.
White Cube Bermondsey, London SE1, from 28 January until 12 April

Bonaparte and the British
Satirical prints and patriotic propaganda (and often these were the same thing) from the age of the Napoleonic wars.
British Museum, London WC1, from 5 February until 16 August

The Event Sculpture
An event by Tino Sehgal starts outside the gallery on 2 February and moves inside to become part of this exploration of sculpture as action in the world.
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, until 8 March

Masterpiece of the week

Flowers by Rachel Ruysch. — Flowers in a Vase by Rachel Ruysch. Photograph: Heritage Images/Getty Images

Rachel Ruysch – Flowers in a Vase (c 1685)
What a sumptuous delineation of nature by this 17th-century woman who broke into a male-dominated art world.
National Gallery, London WC2

Image of the week

Untitled – High Street 1975, from the series On a Good Day by the US photographer Al Vandenberg. Included in the exhibition We Could Be a Heroes, about the evolution of teenage tribes and subcultures throughout the 20th century, at the Photographers' Gallery, London W1, 6 February until 12 April. — Untitled – High Street, 1975, from the series On a Good Day by the photographer Al Vandenberg. Included in the exhibition We Could Be Heroes, about the evolution of teenage tribes in the 20th century, at the Photographers’ Gallery, London W1, 6 February until 12 April.

What we learned this week

Revealed: how much Tate got paid by BP

And, given the figure, does Tate really need them?

What 100 years of teenage dreams look like (clue: there’s plenty of punks and quiffs)

That the most scorned era of architecture – postwar – is finally getting some love

What they don’t want you to see ... how an artist recreated the hidden world of UK deportation

How amazing the life of the dazzling surrealist artist Leonora Carrington was ...

How Christian Marclay was able to follow up his worldwide art phenomenon Clock – with plenty of booze

That Luc Tuymans has gone over to the dark side, with paintings of Japanese cannibals and German executions

How cutlery design can blow your tastebuds away

About the gif art that is visible from space

Why Cornelia Parker refuses to tick anyone else’s boxes

That the legendary photographer Alec Soth has photographed the death of community in America

How India embraced photography as art

How creepy Shi Mohan’s drawings of children are

How sublime and majestic France can look

That the Southbank Centre banned a street-art event celebrating its skate park’s salvation

How the west seduced Japan after the war, with Chewing Gum and Chocolate

The art that reveals Wolf Hall’s history is a travesty

That the world-famous Smithsonian may open in the Olympic park in Stratford

And finally ...

It’s your last chance to share your art about outer space

Fancy seeing a talk about the brilliant fashion photographer Guy Bourdin with the Guardian’s fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley and the curator of the exhibition, Alistair O’Neill, at Somerset House in London on 4 March? The event is exclusively for Guardian members. For more details, click here