Un-macho abstraction, a Venice Lion and questions of queerness – the week in art

Elaine de Kooning’s The Bull, 1959. Photograph: Courtesy The Levett Collection/EdeK Trust

Exhibition of the week

Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70
Abstract expressionism gets stereotyped as macho, but here are its female heroes, including Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler.
• Whitechapel Gallery, London, 9 February to 7 May