Exhibition of the week
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5
A futuristic installation that brings this artist’s style of image overload to bear on the pressing question: what if aliens fell in love with us?
• Serpentine South Gallery, London, until 4 September.
Also showing
Nathan Coley: Tentative Words Change Everything
The Scottish artist puts uneasy neon signs into the skies of south-east England. I DONT HAVE ANOTHER LAND, declares the work at Bloomsbury Group hangout Charleston.
• Sussex locations including Charleston until 29 August.
For the Record: Photography & the Art of the Album Cover
Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman and Hipgnosis are among the creators of album covers, classic and lesser-known, in this survey of pop’s own art.
• Photographers’ Gallery, London, until 12 June.
Walead Beshty: Addendum
Folded sculptures that are reminiscent of early 20th-century constructivist reliefs, made from photographic printing papers, with a tender, elegaic feeling.
• Thomas Dane Gallery, London, until 28 May.
Rhododendrons: Riddle, Obsession, Threat
Turner winner from 2005 Simon Starling is among the contemporary artists investigating the history of this famous flower genus alongside Victorian botanical art.
• Inverleith House, Edinburgh, until 5 June.
Image of the week
The non-binary artist Sin Wai Kin, who grew up in Toronto, is one of the four artists on this year’s shortlist for the Turner prize, along with Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard and Veronica Ryan. The environmental crisis and our relationships to the natural world are, in different ways, persistent themes across the shortlist, as are questions of identity and belonging. Read our feature, Breadfruit, cherries and drag: this is a lip-smacking Turner prize shortlist.
What we learned
Warhol is now worth more than Picasso
David McKee, creator of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant and Mr Benn, has died
Ukrainian artists are responding fast to the war with poignant new work
A gallery at Tottenham Hotspur’s ground could be a game changer
Young cartoonists have been having a laugh
Anonymous artist Foka Wolf put Boris Johnson on a prank billboard
Art forgers got a kick out of fooling experts
A lost portrait of actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson will go on show
Walter Sickert painted himself in many roles … but not Jack the Ripper
Doris Derby, the photographer who chronicled the US civil rights movement, has died
Masterpiece of the week
Tobias and the Angel, workshop of Andrea Verrocchio, c 1470-75
A youth dressed in the height of fashion, with curly hair, short cloak and red hose, walks arm in arm with an angel on a job for his blind father, Tobit. As they go, the angel explains that the ointment in a wooden container, made from the guts of the fish Tobias carries, will cure his father’s blindness. With its fairytale charm and elegant style this is typical of the paintings and sculptures that emerged from Verrocchio’s busy workshop in 15th-century Florence. But there’s a more compelling interest. Verrocchio’s pupil Leonardo da Vinci quite obviously painted the little dog that scurries beside them, its long flowing rivers of fur so delicately touched into ethereal shimmers that it seems like a ghost dog. It is the spectre of Leonardo’s youthful genius.
• National Gallery, London.
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