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Jonathan Jones

Flashing lights, iPhone cameras and racing action – the week in art

Art therapy … Dreamachine.
Art therapy … Dreamachine. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Exhibition of the week

Dreamachine
Your own brain creates the colours and shapes you see in this hallucinatory art experience that everyone experiences differently. Relax and accept the sublime.
Murrayfield Ice Rink, Edinburgh international festival, until 25 September

Also showing

Nothing’s Guaranteed
An introduction to “Bosno-futurist” art from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Summerhall, Edinburgh, until 25 September

Arabella Ross and Carrie Stanley
Two painters who dive into semi-abstract colour and spontaneity.
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, until 29 January

Walter Sickert
There is still time to be shocked and impressed by this radical, strange pioneer of modern art.
Tate Britain, London, until 18 September

Walter Sickert: Brighton Pierrots, 1915.
Walter Sickert: Brighton Pierrots, 1915. Photograph: Tate

Cancer Revolution
A survey of how treatment and knowledge of the feared disease has changed and is changing.
Science Museum, London, until January

Image of the week

Photographs in the Rebellion to Romance exhibition, part of the Out of Many festival, Leeds.
Photographs in the Rebellion to Romance exhibition, part of the Out of Many festival, Leeds. Photograph: JMA Photography

The Windrush legacy is not just a London story. In celebration of Jamaica’s 60th anniversary of independence, the Leeds West Indian community have chosen to mark their contribution to the city’s culture with a string of arts and cultural events in the Out of Many festival. Opening with the Rebellion to Romance exhibition, curator Susan Pitter celebrates the 1970s and 80s, gathering family portraits and ephemera from that era to show “that every time we keep something – a ticket to a show, a poster, whatever – it helps us tell a story. And nobody else can tell our story the way we can.” Read the full story here.

What we learned

Architects are leading a global movement towards ‘creative reuse’

Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist behind Le Petit Nicolas and many New Yorker covers, has died aged 89

Veteran photographer of Americana Henry Horenstein took inspiration from a surprising source

The annual iPhone Photography award winners were announced

Johnny Depp is planning a film about Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani

The Marble Arch Mound architects have moved on to Albania

Theatre director Robert Wilson is exhibiting his ‘filmed portraits’ of Hollywood stars and porcupines

Trevor Mathison is making music out of a London art gallery

Robert Parks photographed the oil-workers who fuelled America

Life on Mars will be golden

Masterpiece of the week

The Northern Drawbridge to the Citadel in Copenhagen Artist: Christen Købke

Christen Købke: The Northern Drawbridge to the Citadel in Copenhagen (1837)
The cold clear pink sky gives what seems at first a carefully realistic scene a dreamlike power. It is as if Købke sees this place perfectly in his mind’s eye but with an electrifying, hallucinatory addition of fantastic light. In fact Købke is depicting his childhood home in a part of Copenhagen that was previously a fortress. For him this drawbridge and these buildings are deeply familiar and meaningful. Just like John Constable, who depicted his “boyhood scenes” all his life, this Danish artist immerses himself in his past to create a curiously intense landscape. His observation slides into abstract colour effects as the strong red of the bridge’s frame doubles the force of the rosy sky while reacting with the green foliage. This is not outer nature but inner fire, a jewel of Romanticism.
National Gallery, London

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