Exhibition of the week
Women in Revolt! Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement 1970–1990
Survey of feminist art and protest with Ingrid Pollard, Mary Kelly and more.
• Tate Britain, London, 8 November-7 April
Also showing
Gemma Anderson-Tempini – And She Built a Crooked House
An Artangel installation in a spooky old Victorian house that explores the idea of time as a “fourth dimension”.
• Burton Grange, Leeds, until 28 January
Superb Line – prints and drawings from Genoa 1500–1800
Drawings from Renaissance and baroque Genoa including the mannerist genius of Perino del Vaga.
• British Museum, London, until 1 April
El Anatsui: TimeSpace
Smaller than the Ghanaian sculptor’s magnificent installation in Tate Modern, these glittering works find beauty in scrap.
• October Gallery, London, until 13 January
John Craxton: A Modern Odyssey
Visions of sun, sea and sex by this British artist who loved Greece.
• Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, until 21 April
Image of the week
These four portraits are of one man, cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, drawn by one courtroom sketch artist, Jane Rosenberg. A sketch artist for over 40 years, Rosenberg found Bankman-Fried’s face “unusual” and tried to document his shape-shifting appearance while “trying over and over” to capture his likeness as the trial progressed, resulting in everything from a buff angry man to a meek young victim.
What we learned
An Australian cow paddock now has a $174m Monet
Hockney’s new life drawings boom with energy and hope
Halloween is extra creepy on the New York subway
… and it’s terrifying in paintings too
Michelangelo’s doodles on the wall of a Florence cellar are going on show for the first time
There’s a lot more to Klimt’s The Kiss than we thought
The pursuit of beauty drives us to strange extremes
How a Spanish biologist discovered a lost masterpiece by Géricault
The Caribbean art of seed work risks being lost
Masterpiece of the week
The Comte d’Espagnac by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1786
This 10-year-old boy has the long wild hair of a budding romantic, painted in the age when France was excited about Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s writings and the cult of nature they celebrated. Vigée Le Brun is a painter of naturalness, freedom and spontaneity. This lad has the same smiling optimism as her Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat in the National Gallery; she would also portray Emma Hamilton wildly bashing a tambourine. But the energy and experiment of this artist were out of tune with her time. Both she and her sitter the young comte d’Espagnac would soon be fleeing France, for they were part of the “frivolous” upper class condemned by the French Revolution.
• Wallace Collection
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