Exhibition of the week
Capturing the Moment
Painting and photography feed off each other in fascinating ways, and this show about their relationship stars great artists from Picasso to Paula Rego.
• Tate Modern, London, from 13 June to 28 January.
Also showing
Erwin Wurm: Trap of the Truth
Funny, quirky cartoon sculptures by this Austrian artist should bring smiles among more than 100 works made over 30 years.
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, from 10 June to 28 April.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Terrific works by Lindsey Mendick, Gillian Wearing, Paula Rego and Frank Bowling can be found among the flotsam and jetsam of this huge rambling tea party.
• Royal Academy, London, from 13 June to 20 August.
uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, Liverpool Biennial
Lubaina Himid and Melanie Manchot are among the artists in this citywide artfest exploring “the space between life and death and how to work through ancestral pain towards healing”.
• Venues across Liverpool, 10 June to 17 September.
Osvaldo Licini: Rebellious Angel
Eccentric and charming Italian modern artist whose abstract cartoons remind you of Paul Klee.
• Estorick Collection, London, from 14 June to 10 September.
Image of the week
Joana Vasconcelos has dreamed up a wedding-cake tower for the Rothschild family’s English country house, Waddesdon Manor. Read the full article here.
What we learned
Paul McCartney talked about photographing Beatlemania from the inside
Lubaina Himid loves opera – and has gone to Glyndebourne
Volunteers helped restore the vandalised statue of a Black woman in Bexhill-on-Sea
Oscar Murillo’s paintings mature ‘like really good wine’
Australia’s first major Rembrandt show this century has opened in Melbourne
Peter Howson revealed the devastating impact of being the official Bosnian war artist
Anselm Kiefer grew up on a bomb site
The 2023 Serpentine pavilion is like a giant cocktail umbrella
In Arles, a new eco building is made of salt, sunflowers and recycled urine
Painter, writer and muse to Picasso Françoise Gilot has died aged 101
Ilya Kabakov, whose installations drew on his life in the USSR, has died aged 89
Criticism of Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso exhibition Pablo-matic has been hasty
Masterpiece of the week
Mummy portrait of an unknown woman, Rubaiyat, Egypt, 160-170 AD
Portraits of women were frequent in the Roman empire, from powerful characters in the imperial family to nameless individuals such as this haunting presence, painted to be fixed on a mummy case. By this time Egypt was a Roman colony, its culture a blend of ancient traditions including mummifying the dead, and realistic art very similar to that found in Pompeii on the other side of the Mediterranean. With her dark eyes staring straight at you, this woman seems like the ghost of the person whose bandaged corpse the picture decorated, holding you with her eerily calm gaze, a painted photograph from another world.
• British Museum, London
Don’t forget
To follow us on Twitter: @GdnArtandDesign.
Sign up to the Art Weekly newsletter
If you don’t already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here.
Get in Touch
If you have any questions or comments about any of our newsletters please email newsletters@theguardian.com
