Exhibition of the week
Michael Jackson: On the Wall
Artists from Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons have taken inspiration from the king of pop.
• National Portrait Gallery, London, 28 June until 21 October.
Also showing
Glenn Brown
This display in the British Museum’s prints and drawings gallery compares Brown’s fantastical designs with their old masterly inspirations.
• British Museum, London, until 22 July.
Alison Wilding
The introspective and mysterious art of one of our most original sculptors is on show in East Sussex.
• De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, East Sussex, 23 June until 16 September.
Dorothea Lange/Vanessa Winship
Documentary photographs with a powerful conscience from the 1930s and today.
• Barbican, London, until 2 September.
Collier Schorr
This exhibition offers recent work by this subversive photographer, who is poised between art and fashion.
• Modern Art, Helmet Row, London, 28 June until 1 September.
Masterpiece of the week
The tremendous colours, rollicking flesh and sumptuous fruits in this baroque feast of a painting create a joyous feeling of carnival. Satyrs and nymphs gather round the goddess Pomona to celebrate nature’s abundance. Jordaens came from Antwerp, where his contemporaries included Rubens and Van Dyck; he shares their exuberance and sensuality. There is a sharp edge to his art, a realist precision, that makes the fruits of nature look bright and edible against that acid blue sky.
• Wallace Collection, London.
Image of the week
David Bowie as Aladdin Sane, by Brian Duffy
A print from the 1973 photo session that spawned one of pop’s most celebrated album covers – Aladdin Sane, by David Bowie – was given to the V&A by the archive of “swinging London” photographer Brian Duffy. The museum’s David Bowie Is retrospective has been the most popular show in its history, touring world galleries since 2013: it is expected to notch up its 2 millionth visitor on its final stop at the Brooklyn Museum. It closes there on 15 July.
What we learned
34,361 and rising: Banu Cennetoğlu explained why her migration chronicle, the List, is so powerful
Manifesta 12 has taken over Palermo
Mike Parr buried himself under a Hobart street for art
The debate has begun over how to rebuild Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art
Vanessa Winship has a major UK show at last
… and it makes a fascinating pairing with Dorothea Lange
Pigeons will light up London’s skies anew
Christo’s London Mastaba was uncovered
Iceland’s most rebellious art gallery has a fascinating history
Michael Jackson’s personal photographer recalled the king of pop
The Monarch of the Glen is coming down from the Highlands
Another monarch, the elderly Queen Victoria, will not be travelling abroad
Magician David Copperfield has conjured an artistic wonder out of his props
Photographer John Kippin has been busy capturing the spirit of northern England
Spite houses add architectural substance to arguments
… while a London developer has bricked up a water feature to avoid mishaps
New York wants more statues of women
… while a small Australian town may get a giant statue of Nick Cave
… and Somerset’s Willow Man is under threat
The Wallace Collection’s founder remains an enigma
A ping-pong table is a useful thing, finds photographer Hayahisa Tomiyasu
Sister Corita Kent added spirituality to pop art
One man is saving Catalonia’s heritage a tile at a time
Frank Dunphy, ex-business manager of Damien Hirst, is auctioning off gifts from the artist
Sou Fujimoto is an architectural revolutionary
Rare mid-20th-century portraits of African Americans illuminate a time of change
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