Exhibition of the week
Howard Hodgkin
This exhibition serves as a farewell to the great British painter who recently died. His works may seem abstract at first sight, but each one is a passionate evocation of people, places and lost time.
• National Portrait Gallery, London, until 18 June
Also showing
Rubens and Rembrandt
The two great baroque visionaries go head to head in a free exhibition to open a new section of the National Gallery.
• National Gallery, London, until 16 July
Ten Days Six Nights
Artists including Isabel Lewis, CAMP, Fujiko Nakaya, and Wu Tsang and Fred Moten create an epic exhibition of live art in Tate Modern’s sublimely brutal Tanks.
• Tate Modern, London, until 2 April
John Akomfrah
In his acclaimed video installation Vertigo Sea, Akomfrah surveys the often brutal human history of the oceans, from whaling and the slave trade to today’s dangerous migrant voyages.
• Whitworth, Manchester, until 28 August
NOW
Nathan Coley’s work including The Lamp of Sacrifice, 286 Places of Worship – with its array of models of churches, mosques and temples – is at the centre of a survey that also encompasses Mona Hatoum, Rivane Neuenschwander and Tessa Lynch.
• Modern One, Edinburgh, 25 March-24 September
Masterpiece of the week
Paolo Veronese, Respect, c 1575
Veronese was one of Howard Hodgkin’s favourite painters and not surprisingly for they share a sensual command of colour. In this allegory of love, a man stands reverently before the power and beauty of nakedness. Vibrant silvery hues make desire both tangible and ethereal in this miracle of subtle painting.
• National Gallery, London.
Image of the week
Parker Bright protests in front of a work in New York’s Whitney Biennial, depicting murdered black teenager Emmett Till – the painting, by white artist Dan Schutz, has caused outrage. “Many in the black art community are upset by the work,” he said. “I wanted to confront people with a living, breathing black body.” Schutz countered: “I don’t know what it is like to be black in America, but I do know what it is like to be a mother. Emmett was Mamie Till’s only son. The thought of anything happening to your child is beyond comprehension.”
What we learned this week
Paddy Summerfield told us about his best shot – a girl reading a Christian book in the swinging 60s
‘Millennial pink’ is the colour of the moment
Oliver Wainwright walks us through the bizarre skyscrapers cropping up in China
Polaroid Swing is reinventing the Polaroid for the age of the gif
Jonathan Meades cooks us lunch – and discusses his recent brush with death
Victoria Beckham is channelling Van Gogh
Poulomi Basu travelled to Nepal to photograph women exiled for menstruation
The aforementioned Howard Hodgkin exhibition contains his very last work
Shia LaBeouf’s Trump-taunting art project will move to Fact in Liverpool
Get involved
Guardian members can book now for these exclusive private views: Michelangelo & Sebastiano at the National Gallery, London, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize at the Photographer’s Gallery, London, and True Faith, a group show exploring the impact of Joy Division and New Order on the art world, part of Manchester international festival.
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