Exhibition of the week
Leon Kossoff
Few humans have ever painted London’s streets, swimming pools and church buildings with the energy and fact 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 by means of this veteran American artist who has in no way shown in Britain before.
• Blain4 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 within 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 very 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 which means in Schalcken’s shadows. In his story Schalcken the Painter, he imagines a horrific stumble upon with 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 coastline into an high-quality immersive event, and 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 vacationer 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 became out to be an extraordinary authentic
Painter Rose Hilton, the ultimate link with the wilder art diaspora beyond St Ives, died

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