Exhibition of the week
Lindsey Mendick: Sh*tfaced
Ceramics and psychology come together in Shitfaced, a show about binge-drinking. And the fringe hasn’t even started yet.
• Jupiter Artland, near Edinburgh, until 1 October
Also showing
Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden
How this revered artist drew on Renaissance art when she painted a mural for the National Gallery’s restaurant.
• National Gallery, London, from 20 July until 29 October
Black Venus
Dominant representations of Black women are challenged by Sonia Boyce, Kara Walker, Alberta Whittle and more.
• Somerset House, London, from 20 July until 24 September
Cinga Samson
Shadowy paintings from South Africa that suggest a history of violence and loss.
• White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, until 26 August
Herzog & de Meuron
Models and plans document the works of these architects who conjure the futurist sublime.
• Royal Academy, London, until 15 October
Image of the week
In his lifetime, New York billionaire Sheldon Solow assembled a $500m private collection of art, featuring pieces by Picasso, Lichtenstein and Cézanne. The works – which also include a ferocious crimson Basquiat, a monochrome Kline and a serene Henry Moore – have been kept secret for years but for select members of the public, the door is slowly being opened. Read full article here
What we learned
A Helsinki mayor has been busted spraying graffiti in a railway tunnel
A group show about the body is full of grotesque detail but short of soul
Film-maker Joel Coen has curated a new show by photographer Lee Friedlander
Thousands of artists are being forced out of London by rising costs
Architect Norman Foster praised Steve Jobs’s ability to ‘think across a great scale’
An appeal aims to save a derelict but ‘almost modernist’ 1941 RAF watching station
A landmark show by Nan Goldin has opened in Australia
Dürer painted himself into a Renaissance altarpiece in revenge
Photographer Janine Wiedel captured the filth and glory of Britain’s industrial 1970s
Mike Silva originally wanted to make paintings that looked like Black Flag sounded
Arson appears to have destroyed celebrated sculpture Venus of the Rags
Masterpiece of the week
Landscape at Arleux-du-Nord by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1871-4
Photograph: Painters/Alamy
The young impressionists were shaking landscape art when the elderly Corot painted this placid, rustic moment. But far from seeing him as a conservative dullard, the French avant garde recognised his intensity and originality. Corot, born in 1796, ploughed his own furrow, painting silent, calm, poetic rural scenes that straddle the Romantic age and the early years of modernism. This painting may even be subtly influenced by the impressionist appetite for strong sunlight. It’s a tender hymn to the French countryside by an artist who loved his national landscapes as much as John Constable loved Suffolk.
• National Gallery, London
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