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Jonathan Jones

Comedy sculpture, the RA rambles, and Liverpool lets rip – the week in art

‘Fascinating’ … Towards a Definitive Statement on the Coming Trends in Menswear and Accessories (a) Together Let Us Explore the Stars by Richard Hamilton, 1962, showing as part ofCapturing the Moment at Tate Modern.
‘Fascinating’ … Towards a Definitive Statement on the Coming Trends in Menswear and Accessories (a) Together Let Us Explore the Stars by Richard Hamilton, 1962, showing as part ofCapturing the Moment at Tate Modern. Photograph: Tate/Oliver Cowling & Lucy Green/The estate of Richard Hamilton

Exhibition of the week

Capturing the Moment
Painting and photography feed off each other in fascinating ways, and this show about their relationship stars great artists from Picasso to Paula Rego.
Tate Modern, London, from 13 June to 28 January.

Also showing

Erwin Wurm: Trap of the Truth
Funny, quirky cartoon sculptures by this Austrian artist should bring smiles among more than 100 works made over 30 years.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, from 10 June to 28 April.

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Terrific works by Lindsey Mendick, Gillian Wearing, Paula Rego and Frank Bowling can be found among the flotsam and jetsam of this huge rambling tea party.
Royal Academy, London, from 13 June to 20 August.

uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, Liverpool Biennial
Lubaina Himid and Melanie Manchot are among the artists in this citywide artfest exploring “the space between life and death and how to work through ancestral pain towards healing”.
Venues across Liverpool, 10 June to 17 September.

Osvaldo Licini: Rebellious Angel
Eccentric and charming Italian modern artist whose abstract cartoons remind you of Paul Klee.
Estorick Collection, London, from 14 June to 10 September.

Image of the week

Wedding Cake, by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos.
Wedding Cake, by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Joana Vasconcelos has dreamed up a wedding-cake tower for the Rothschild family’s English country house, Waddesdon Manor. Read the full article here.

What we learned


Paul McCartney talked about photographing Beatlemania from the inside

Lubaina Himid loves opera – and has gone to Glyndebourne

Volunteers helped restore the vandalised statue of a Black woman in Bexhill-on-Sea

Oscar Murillo’s paintings mature ‘like really good wine’

Australia’s first major Rembrandt show this century has opened in Melbourne

Peter Howson revealed the devastating impact of being the official Bosnian war artist

Anselm Kiefer grew up on a bomb site

The 2023 Serpentine pavilion is like a giant cocktail umbrella

In Arles, a new eco building is made of salt, sunflowers and recycled urine

Painter, writer and muse to Picasso Françoise Gilot has died aged 101

Ilya Kabakov, whose installations drew on his life in the USSR, has died aged 89

Criticism of Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso exhibition Pablo-matic has been hasty

Masterpiece of the week

Full: Front Conservation survey 2009. Front. Limewood portrait of a woman: the richly bejeweled woman in the panel portrait is portrayed with elegance and sophistication, with sweet, refined features. The necklace inset with precious stones and diadem; the jewellery-detail in added gold leaf. © The Trustees of the British Museum

Mummy portrait of an unknown woman, Rubaiyat, Egypt, 160-170 AD
Portraits of women were frequent in the Roman empire, from powerful characters in the imperial family to nameless individuals such as this haunting presence, painted to be fixed on a mummy case. By this time Egypt was a Roman colony, its culture a blend of ancient traditions including mummifying the dead, and realistic art very similar to that found in Pompeii on the other side of the Mediterranean. With her dark eyes staring straight at you, this woman seems like the ghost of the person whose bandaged corpse the picture decorated, holding you with her eerily calm gaze, a painted photograph from another world.
British Museum, London

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