Exhibition of the week
Superwoman
Striking images from Soviet propaganda art explore how communism represented women from the 1917 Bolshevik revolution to the collapse of the USSR.
• GRAD, London, 18 June-17 September.
Also showing
Painter’s Paintings: Freud to Van Dyck
What kind of art do artists live with? This exhibition looks at artists, including Matisse and Degas, as collectors of the work of their heroes and inspirations.
• National Gallery, London, 23 June-4 September.
Storms, War and Shipwrecks
Underwater archaeology reveals the secret history of Sicily in this survey of finds from the sea around the culturally spectacular Mediterranean island.
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 21 June-25 September.
Joseph Grigely
The archive of a deceased critic – the champion of minimalism, Gregory Battcock – is explored by an artist fascinated by the written word.
• Marian Goodman Gallery, London, 21 June-29 July.
Winifred Knights
Neo-Renaissance paintings that mix modern minimalism with the cool grace of Piero della Francesca.
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 18 September.
Masterpiece of the week
This is the face that launched a thousand paintings of popes. Well, maybe not a thousand, but Raphael’s acute image of the aged Julius looking tired and melancholy – largely because the city of Bologna had just rebelled against his rule and melted down Michelangelo’s bronze statue of him – inspired rival masterpieces of papal portraiture by Titian, Velázquez and ultimately Francis Bacon. It is a central work in the history of portraiture.
• National Gallery, London.
Image of the week
What we learned
Tate Modern’s Switch House has finally opened – and it’s full of brain-fizzing art
David Hockney has made a triumphant return to portraits ... of his friends
Five of the six shortlisted artists for the 2016 Jarman award are women
Georgiana Houghton’s Spirit Drawings at the Courtauld are awe-inspiring stuff
Manifesta Zurich shows you inside a room of poo and Michel Houellebecq’s head
Curated by the DIS collective, the Berlin Biennale is a slick, sarcastic joke
A Brâncuşi sculpture has gone on show as Romania bids to take ownership
Lucian Freud’s childhood drawings are on display at the National Portrait Gallery
Two Barbara Hepworth sculptures were sold for £2.2m by her old school
William Hogarth predicted Brexit more than 250 years ago in a painting
Revealed: the flipsides of some of the world’s most famous works of art
Engineering emperor Ove Arup has a massive computer called Mumbo Jumbo
Some people live their whole lives in Airbnb – or cohabit with 500 flatmates
When’s a garden bridge not a garden bridge? When it’s a bridge garden
The Smithsonian has abandoned plans for a bespoke London outpost
But this is what the Guggenheim looks like marooned in the desert
Arne Svenson photographed forensic reconstructions of murder victims’ faces
William Burns Livingston III only discovered he could draw once in prison
And finally ... the most important art today is made in space
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