Exhibition of the week
Rembrandt: Britain’s Discovery of the Master
This ramble through British attitudes to Rembrandt over the last four centuries is a bit diffuse, but it includes some drop-dead masterpieces including The Mill, which may well be the greatest landscape ever painted. Turner thought so.
• Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, from 7 July to 14 October.
Also showing
Tacita Dean: Woman With a Red Hat
The serious and poetic artist follows up her acclaimed London multi-venue show with an exhibition for the Edinburgh festival.
• Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, from 7 July to 30 September.
Hogarth and Goya
A comparison of two of the greatest printmakers of all time.
• The Whitworth, Manchester, from 7 July to August 2019.
Memory Palace
Anselm Kiefer and Tracey Emin are among the gallery artists exploring images of the past in this ambitious summer show.
• White Cube, London, from 11 July to 2 September.
Tim Stoner
Works on paper by this painter of uneasy modern pastorals.
• Modern Art, London, from 13 July to 11 August.
Masterpiece of the Week
Paintings get given all kinds of misleading titles over the centuries. The Victorian-sounding name attached to this fascinating slice of Renaissance life is doubly inadequate. For one thing, “toilet” sounds a bit silly these days. For another, these women belong to a very particular profession. Two sex workers are getting ready for work. The third woman is their procuress. This is a piece of social history, showing in realistic detail how the sex workers of 16th-century Venice went about their trade.
• Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.
Image of the week
Sabine Weiss, the 93-year-old veteran of street photography, recognised the power of the everyday, and nowhere is her ease with people more evident than in her black-and-white shots of children playing in the streets of 1950s Europe. This is her favourite photo. “I like it because he is playing with me,” she says in our interview.
What we learned
The beautiful game is even better-looking at an exhibition in Miami
Installation artist Theaster Gates believes in a Black Madonna and Frankie Knuckles
Indigenous Australian artists are passing their skills and culture on to a new generation
The City of London’s neglected ‘streets in the air’ have been reopened
… while Cleveland, Ohio, is using mushrooms to recycle derelict buildings
Banksy wants to help keep Bristol’s libraries open
Zebras and unicorns showed up in the LensCulture 2018 street photography awards
Holiday snaps are not what they seem in Thomas Albdorf’s world
British architecture needs more diversity
Hepworth Wakefield is spending its prize windfall on a Helen Marten
… and the West Bank has a new £16m arts centre
We cast shadows over our children’s lives, according to photographer Viviane Sassen
The elegant side of mid-century Senegal is on show in the portrait photography of Mama Casset
Art lovers now have their own French island
The Arles photography festival offers a window on the world
The world’s top art forgery detective is opening up his case files
There is a burgeoning art scene in Harlem
The Bahamas’ national gallery has fallen out with the British Council
India’s train stations have been turned into giant canvases
… and a Roman wall painting has resurfaced after 200 years
Automata, mechanical toys and other kinetic sculptures are coming to life at a Warwickshire gallery
Napoleon Bonaparte’s family portraits are on sale
Antonio Olmos has photographed eight generations of NHS nurses
The history of US political protest can be told in badges
There was another side to Amy Winehouse
Painter and sculptor Leonard McComb, who has died aged 87, once scandalised the dean of Lincoln
