Exhibition of the week
Gillian Ayres
New paintings and woodcuts by the 87-year-old abstract artist are accompanied by her phenomenal 1972 work Untitled (Cerise), a nearly six-metre wide epic of suggestive colour.
• Alan Cristea gallery, London, from 16 March-22 April.
Also showing
Ten Days Six Nights
Artists including Isabel Lewis, Wu Tsang and Fred Moten, Camp and Fujiko Nakaya create an epic exhibition of live art in Tate Modern’s sublimely brutal film set-like Tanks.
• Tate Modern, London, from 24 March-2 April.
Fred Tomaselli
Dadaist subversions in which Tomaselli takes pages from the New York Times and adds his own fantastical interventions, turning news into the stuff of dreams and nightmares.
• White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, from 17 March-13 May.
People Power: Fighting for Peace
The story of the peace movement from the first world war to CND and beyond is told through posters, placards, badges and other protest art.
• Imperial War Museum, London, from 23 March -28 August.
Alexandra Domanovic
An unlikely blend of archaic Greek sculpture and the mutant imagery of the techno age from this Berlin-based artist.
• Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, from 23 March-11 June.
Masterpiece of the week
Titian, The Aldobrandini Madonna, about 1532
The incredible flare of setting a bright yellow dress against the Virgin Mary’s blue gown reveals Titian’s command of colour at its most sizzling in this warm, intimate study of devotion and motherhood. The woman in that lemon zinger of a dress is thought by art historians to be St Catherine, but that is not certain. In fact, she seems to be simply a Venetian woman posing for Titian, in a painting that breaks the barrier between religious art and real life, and shows why Titian is the most human of Renaissance artists.
• National Gallery, London.
Image of the week
Disobedient Bodies
Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson has fashioned a show for the Hepworth Wakefield gallery that examines how sculpture and clothing subvert the human body. Works by more than 40 artists and designers are on show, ranging from Barbara Hepworth to Issey Miyake, Sarah Lucas to Yves Saint Laurent and Naum Gabo, plus Anderson himself.
• Disobedient Bodies: JW Anderson Curates the Hepworth Wakefield runs from 18 March-18 June.
What we learned this week
US governments are not keen on funding provocative art
Danish collective Superflex will be next to fill Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
Canadian photographer Rodney Graham doesn’t rate his own acting …
… but his Baltic retrospective gets five stars from Adrian Searle
Jean Painlevé’s films of seahorse sex caused censors to blush – and sparked a 1930s design fad
Wood makes for wonderfully sculptural buildings…
… while Pierre Cardin’s bubble-architecture hideaway on the French Riviera has no straight lines
Jim Grover found much to catch his eye on Clapham High Street
Fake seals and winter landscapes – one photographer documented how zoos treat polar bears
US libraries can be places of beauty
What difference did anti-war protests make?
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