Exhibition of the week
Leon Kossoff
Few humans have ever painted London’s streets, swimming pools, and church buildings with the energy and facts of Kossoff. This is a career survey of one of Britain’s brilliant artists.
Joan Snyder
Fizzing summary artwork inside the lifestyle of Jackson Pollock using this veteran American artist who has never shown in Britain before.
• Blain April to eleven May.
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Gladys Nilsson
Comic, whimsical, innovative depictions of the human shape through this Chicago painter with artistic roots in Nineteen Sixties counterculture.
• Hales Gallery, London, till 27 April.
Eric Parry
Sensitive architectural drawings in the sublime setting of Sir John Soane’s Museum of Wonders.
• Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, until 27 May.
Alex Katz
Effortlessly stylish abstracted realities with the aid of one of the authentic masters of present-day artwork.
• Tullie House, Carlisle, till sixteen June.
A Man Offering Gold and Coins to a Girl, c 1665-70, through Godfried Schalcken
A Candle in the Dark casts a disreputable light on this erotic painting from the Dutch Golden Age. Its heat glow glints on the fee a person is presenting a girl in what appears to be an ornately decorated brothel, with a pleasant carving of the love god Cupid. It’s all sinful, and the painting’s motive is as ambiguous as that flickering flame. Is it a moral caution? If so, nothing punitive appears to be occurring to the prostitute or her client. So, possibly, this is meant surely to excite middle-magnificence Dutch connoisseurs. The nineteenth-century Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu noticed a third in Schalcken’s shadows. In his story Schalcken the Painter, he imagines a horrific stumble upon intercourse, loss of life, and the supernatural that left this curious artist mentally scarred.
Art set up, Bombay Beach Biennale, Slab City, California. The fourth annual Bombay Beach Biennale – a “renegade celebration” of art, music, and philosophy” – passed off from 22-24 March on the seashores of the Salton Sea, a shallow lake south of Palm Springs. Artists and performers transformed deserted housing, vacant lots, and decaying coastlines into a high-quality immersive event, drawing attention to the once-flourishing area and its environmental disaster.
What we discovered
Pierre Bonnard’s nudes put on Theresa May kitten heels
Toby Leigh made a colorful, cool, animated film document of his stroll across London
Yorkshire Sculpture Park opened a heroic new vacation center
Britain modified Van Gogh – and he converted Britain’s artwork …
… even though Tate Britain’s Van Gogh blockbuster is flabby …
… and EU museums have Brexit issues about their loaned masterpieces …
… plus, the cash-strapped Dutch artist’s impressive pink has grown to become coffee brown
A copy of a Botticelli turned out to be an extraordinarily authentic
Painter Rose Hilton, the ultimate link with the wilder art diaspora beyond St Ives, died

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