Exhibition of the week
Pasquarosa: From Muse to Painter
This Italian fauve painter was a hit in early 20th-century London as well as in her own country.
• Estorick Collection, London, until 28 April
Also showing
Freud and Latin America
The influence of psychoanalysis in the Americas explored in Freud’s atmospheric final home.
• Freud Museum, London, from 17 January until 14 July
Ajarb Bernard Ategwa
Intriguing portraits whose psychedelic colours are inspired by Cameroonian textiles.
• Jack Bell Gallery, London, until 26 January
Michael Rakowitz – The Waiting Gardens of the North
See how the garden is growing in this exhibition that uses live plants to meditate on forced migration and the history of Iraq.
• Baltic, Gateshead, until 26 May
London art fair
More than 100 galleries have stalls in this survey of what’s happening – or at least what’s on the market.
• Business Design Centre, Islington, London, 17-21 January
Image of the week
A US appeal court has said a Madrid museum has the right to retain a painting by Camille Pissarro that was stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish family, in the latest twist in a decades-long legal battle that has pitted the Spanish institution against the heirs of Jewish refugees. Read the full article.
What we learned
Ai Weiwei’s next work will be a collaboration with AI
Kate Moss turns 50 next week and still has the power to enthrall
Mice have scurried through centuries of fine art
Italian arte povera sculptor Giovanni Anselmo has died aged 89
Photographer Joy Gregory was told her work wasn’t Black enough
Female artists have shown that it’s never too late to take a new direction
A new documentary shows the arduous initiation of Czech art students
Masterpiece of the week
Apollo Killing the Cyclops by Domenichino, c 1616-18
Ancient mythology meets cheeky realism in this fresco from an Italian villa. The man staring back at you at the right, who stands outside the painted story, has a face etched with character, sadness and experience. His eyes disrupt the calm landscape where the god Apollo is slaying a one-eyed giant. Apollo was a figure of reason and harmony, who in another story has the satyr Marsyas flayed alive for beating him in a musical contest. Is the man who intrudes on the scene a modern Marsyas? At his feet a cat kills a bird and apples are depicted with perfect accuracy. Humble facts mock heroic fantasies.
• National Gallery, London
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