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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jonathan Jones

Beguiling beauties, designs to be sat on and giant corn dollies – the week in art

A portrait painting shows a young woman with dark hair wearing an off-the-shoulder white dress. Gwen John, Girl with Bare Shoulders, c.1910.
Gwen John, Girl with Bare Shoulders, c 1910. Photograph: SCALA Archives/© Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Scala, Florence

Exhibition of the week

Gwen John: Strange Beauties
This excellent and moving encounter with the Welsh modern painter, touring from Wales’s National Museum, takes you deep into John’s silent, poetic world.
• Modern Two, Edinburgh, from 1 August until 4 January

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