Exhibition of the week
Impressionism: Capturing Life
The impulsive eyes of the impressionists chased the flow and dance of modern life in city streets and steam-filled stations. They showed the world its own reflection. This exhibition explores their portrayal of reality with loans from the Tate, National Gallery and other British collections.
• Holburne Museum, Bath, 13 February-5 June.
Also this week
Avedon Warhol
The powerful photographs of Richard Avedon will be paired with Warhol’s haunting portraits in this double header of glamour and history.
• Gagosian Gallery, London, 9 February-23 April.
Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius
This exhibition recreates the great Renaissance polymath artist’s mind-boggling designs for marvellous machines.
• Science Museum, London, 10 February-4 September.
Leonardo da Vinci: Ten Drawings from the Royal Collection
While his machines are brought to life in London, here’s your chance to experience the genius of Leonardo up close in some of his greatest drawings.
• Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 13 February-24 April.
Joachim Koester
Psychedelic films and installations by this Danish artist are juxtaposed with watercolours by JMW Turner in an exploration of the nature of consciousness.
• Turner Contemporary, Margate, 5 February-8 May.
Masterpiece of the week
Camille Pissarro, Fox Hill, Upper Norwood, 1870
The artists who would become the impressionists spent time in London during the Franco-Prussian war, and left paintings that see Victorian Britain in a fresh modern light. South London looks both mysterious and poignant in Pissarro’s painting.
• National Gallery, London.
Image of the week
What we learned ...
The National Media Museum’s photo collection is moving to London...
Bradford is – understandably – not very happy about it
Why Deborah de Robertis really stripped off in the Musée d’Orsay
How London can possibly house 1.5 million extra people by 2030
Laura Poitras is making art about surveillance, as well as films
That Oasis couldn’t hack a long US tour without cracking up
That it’s not all cake and ale in the art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Ceramics was always a very macho world, says Betty Woodman at the ICA
How artists have responded to the moment we lose consciousness
New York’s fake Rothko show has reduced his tragic art to farce
We have Tibor Reich to thank for brightening up Britain forever
The Fitzwilliam plans to celebrate its 200th anniversary in style
Britain’s top figurative art prize goes to painting of Britain’s oldest umbrella shop
Artangel’s latest installation at Ikon in Birmingham is all about shit
A horse owner demands share of £2,000 prize for picture with his animal
Photographer Séverine Sajous has given cameras to refugees in Calais
Kanye’s old mate Kaws has taken over Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Paris is hoping a new roof for Les Halles will transform the city’s beating heart
That British workers have been sweating it out for centuries
Paul Pholeros, the architect who helped reduce Indigenous poverty, has died
Colombian photographer Fernell Franco really, really liked film noir
Nikolai Astrup would have made a great illustrator for The Lord of the Rings
And Europe’s first underwater museum is, unsurprisingly, selfie heaven
Readers’ art
January’s brief – All-seeing eye: your art on the theme of electronic
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