Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts
British landscape painting from Gainsborough to Hepworth, Wendy McMurdo’s uncanny portraits and Jack White’s debut exhibition – all in your weekly dispatch
TL;DR
- Exhibitions include 'British Landscapes: A Sense of Place' (Gainsborough to Hepworth), Lisa Ivory's gothic paintings, Jack White's debut, Delaine Le Bas's mystical artworks, and Wendy McMurdo's digital fantasy portraits.
- Steven Shearer discusses his paintings, which combine art history with adolescent ennui.
- Recent art news includes the death of British abstract painter Tess Jaray, a new artwork from the Sycamore Gap tree, Phyllida Barlow's disruption of a stately home, and artists funding a renewables plant.
- A fraudster selling fake ancient statues was caught, and photographer Lee Friedlander's ability to transform junk into art is noted.
- The 'Masterpiece of the week' is Palma Vecchio's 'Portrait of a Poet' (c. 1516), likely symbolizing the sitter's poetic aspirations through laurel imagery.
- The National Gallery in London is exhibiting 'Portrait of a Poet'.