Exhibition of the Week
Emil Nolde: Colour is Life
A powerful and thought-provoking exhibition of a great pioneer of modern art who was also a card-carrying Nazi.
• Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, to 21 October.
Also showing
Liverpool Biennial
Art galore on Merseyside, from paintings by Francis Alÿs (better known for his urban interventions) to Duane Linklater’s investigations of identity and loss among Canada’s indigenous people.
• Various venues, Liverpool, 14 July to 28 October.
Life in the Dark
An eye-opening and mind-expanding immersive show that takes you into some of nature’s most remote ecosystems.
• Natural History Museum, London, until 6 January.
Yves Klein
Blue paintings by the modern master in Blenheim’s baroque interiors.
• Blenheim Palace, 18 July to 7 October.
Sean Scully
Early paintings by the respected abstract artist.
• Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 14 July to 14 October.
Masterpiece of the Week
A paradise is falling apart in this bizarre and unsettling Renaissance masterpiece. Cranach was a friend of Martin Luther and his art reflects a Protestant sense of original sin. Here he draws on ancient Greek myths of an early human society that was simple, innocent and rustic. The people he portrays are naked and unabashed. They live in an untamed wild landscape. Yet they are not happy. Something has gone wrong. While women are nurturing children, a battle has broken out. Human violence is destroying the good life.
• National Gallery, London.
Image of the week
Detail from the original map of Winnie the Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood by EH Shepard, which on Tuesday sold for a world-record £430,000 at an auction.
What we learned
William Kentridge paid memorable homage to Africa’s first world war dead
EH Shepard’s original Winnie the Pooh map set an auction record
Pete McKee has friends in the north
Indigenous Australian artist John Mawurndjul revealed the stories behind his work
Jacqui Hallum won the John Moores portrait prize
Thierry Oussou told why he faked an archaeology dig in Africa
PhotoEspaña has come out to play …
… while Arles has a spiritual moment
US billboards will become works of art
MoMA PS1 is caught up in a discrimination row
More skyscrapers are coming to London
Dulwich Picture Gallery will get a psychedelic Nigerian pavilion next summer
A cave-diving show at the Natural History Museum was made even more powerful by events in Thailand
Wildlife photographer Liron Gertsman had a long wait for his best shot
Rohingya refugees got expressive with sunscreen
Spencer Tunick saw red in Melbourne
Pierre Prevost’s panorama captured a lost London
Skateboarding rolls well with photography
Matt Henry wove a southern gothic tale
An English rocker’s house is his castle
We remembered artist Dennis Creffield
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