Yahoo News Psychedelic spring colours and some spectacular surf – the week in art
Exhibition of the week
Jim Lambie
Pulsing psychedelic colours for spring, bursting with buttercup yellow, in this uplifting artist’s latest installation.
• Modern Institute, Glasgow, until 22 May.
Also showing
Carol Rhodes
Eerie paintings that view disjointed modern landscapes from above.
• Alison Jacques Gallery, London, until 29 May.
Takis
This late great pioneer of cosmic vibrations and electromagnetic forces is one of modern art’s most innovative dabblers in science.
• White Cube Bermondsey, London, from 12 May until 27 June.
Rana Begum
An exploration of ethereal colour, including abstract drawings and a floating wire mesh installation.
• Kate MacGarry, London, until 6 June.
The Director’s Choice virtual exhibition
National Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi picks some of his favourite paintings.
• National Gallery online.
Image of the week
This year’s Nikon surf photo of the year award went Stu Gibson for his shot Free Fall, featuring surfer Tyler Hollmer Cross taking on Shipsterns in south-east Tasmania. The winner was selected by a panel of 13 judges from within the surfing world, including the seven-times world surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore. See a selection of the best images here.
What we learned
Rome’s Colosseum is getting a new hi-tech floor
Art detective Christopher Marinello knows how to handle the mafia
Lockdown ended happily for 92-year-old artist Philip Sutton
Jackson Pollock’s 1952 painting Blue Poles narrates a new Australian novel
Catherine de’ Medici is returning to Twickenham
New York photographer Alison Luntz has staged a series of imaginary lockdown escapes
Hans Holbein may have left a secret clue to the identity of a miniature portrait
‘Son of bitumen’ artist Ed Emem is filling potholes with mosaics
Homer Sykes spent 50 years photographing England’s weird and whimsical folk customs
There’s an 11th-hour bid to save Derby’s Assembly Rooms
A new book celebrates the luminous charm of Milanese architect Gio Ponti
Protesters have demanded that MoMa cut its funding ties with rich philanthropists
Jean Dubuffet could turn any material into art …
… and his influence remains formiddable in the 21st century
Rachel Maclean shared her freaky upside down world
The Great British Art Tour took a look at Gladstone’s former prostitute muse, Quentin Massys’s deluded duchess and the tears of a clown
A Uganda arts centre shows Africa the economic case for the arts
US photographer Stephen Shore shot the rust belt early – in 1977
Mr Turner actor Timothy Spall is having his own art show
Elvis is alive and well in the UK – and celebrated in a new photography book
The Swindon leisure centre that christened Oasis is at risk
New York Frieze art fair is upping its social justice game
A new $60.5m gallery is hoping to debunk the Gold Coast’s cultural desert reputation
How Dutch master Frank van der Salm reimagined urban photography
Furloughed nightclubs are turning themselves into exhibition spaces
American photographer Robert Houston has died aged 86
Masterpiece of the week
Pierre-Auguste Renoi, Moulin Huet Bay, Guernsey, circa 1883
Anyone getting excited about summer days after lockdown may warm to this daydreamy scene. Renoir was one of the founders of the impressionist movement in the early 1870s – painting in the moment, in the open, to capture fleeting light. Here, a decade on, he’s still spontaneous and sensual. But the impressionist belief in depicting reality is melting. Those toothy rocks snarling out of the sea seem like fantastic visions. The green and gold water is a warm syrupy concoction, rippling with nostalgia. Renoir is sailing away from the real to the surreal.
• National Gallery, London.
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