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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jonathan Jones

Hiroshige’s peerless prints, McCartney’s unseen snaps and Vancouver’s blue skies – the week in art

Pleasure Boats at Ryōgoku in the Eastern Capital, 1832-4 by Utagawa Hiroshige.
Pleasure Boats at Ryōgoku in the Eastern Capital, 1832-4 by Utagawa Hiroshige. Photograph: Matsuba Ryōko/© Alan Medaugh

Exhibition of the week

Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road
It’s not hard to see why Hiroshige was Van Gogh’s favourite Japanese printmaker – his colours have a radiant intensity almost without equal in art.
• British Museum, London, from 1 May until 7 September

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