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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jonathan Jones

Bedlam dreamscapes, digital-age aliens and a summer pastoral – the week in art

A glowing cherub sits on a pedestal surrounded by dancing children beneath hanging foliage and water droplets
Creepy baby … detail from Puck by Richard Dadd, 1841. Photograph: Simon Critchley/© Harris Museum and Art Gallery

Exhibition of the week

Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam
Terrifying creatures of the night and surreal dreamscapes galore – and those are just the “sane” canvases this Victorian artist painted before he was confined to Bedlam, where his visions became truly unsettling.
• Royal Academy, London, 25 July to 25 October

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