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This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte Also showing<\/p>\n Rachel Kneebone \u2013 Metamorphoses: Porcelain Sculpture Extinction: Renewal, Art of a Living Planet Amar Kanwar Gabriel Orozco: Chronotopic Image of the weekPollenarium by Luke Jerram. Photograph: David Levene\/The Guardian<\/p>\n A new installation that gives visitors a bee\u2019s eye view of the world is landing by the Thames in east London. Created by Bristol artist Luke Jerram the outside represents a grain of pollen, and the inside represents an insect\u2019s compound eye. Jerram hopes it will make people think about how we need to protect pollinators, whose numbers have declined by 60% in 20 years. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n Manchester\u2019s Centre of Chinese Contemporary Art has a new name and a new mission<\/a><\/p>\n Donald Trump wants a 30ft \u201cColossus statue\u201d of George Washington erected<\/a><\/p>\n A show about Emmett Till, whose lynching fired the US civil rights movement, invites audiences to reckon with racism<\/a><\/p>\n Yasmin David is the greatest British landscape painter you\u2019ve never heard of<\/a><\/p>\n Magazine designers have picked their favourite ever covers<\/a><\/p>\n Previously unseen drawings by Moomins author Tove Jansson are to go on show in London<\/a><\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Art Weekly<\/p>\n Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n The Women\u2019s Art Collection in Cambridge features some of the industry\u2019s biggest names including Maggi Hambling, Paula Rego and Bridget Riley<\/a><\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week<\/p>\n Two Men With a Sleeping Woman by Gabriel Metsu, about 1655-60<\/p>\n Photograph: Alamy<\/p>\n Pipes play a slightly surreal part in this 17th-century Dutch painting in which objects and people interact suggestively. A woman has passed out with her white clay pipe in her hand, its stem leading the eye towards what amounts to a still life arrangement beside her: there is a richly decorated cup for spirits, presumably gin, beside a fanned out deck of cards, a mirror, another pipe and a jug of booze. The implication is pretty clear that she\u2019s fallen asleep after a long session of drinking, smoking and card playing \u2013 but what about the mirror? It suggests vanity, and in this picture that may mean loose morals or even prostitution. The men loom and mock, and one pokes his pipe at her. Sign up to the Art Weekly newsletter<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get in Touch<\/p>\n
The confounding, mind-boggling genius of Magritte is explored through remarkable loans of his paintings plus contemporary responses by Sarah Lucas, Matthew Barney and more.
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London, from 24 September until 12 December<\/a><\/p>\n
Kneebone\u2019s porcelain sculptures are crazed reworkings of the kind of Rococo delights that fill the Wallace Collection, so this is a match made in Versailles.
Wallace Collection, London, 23 September until 25 April<\/a><\/p>\n
David Nash, Cristina Mittermeier and other artists respond to the natural world\u2019s peril.
Eden Project, Bodelva, until 19 September 2027<\/a><\/p>\n
Films and video installations that span the modern history of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Serpentine North Gallery, London, 23 September until 31 January<\/a><\/p>\n
A retrospective of the artist famous for cutting open and remaking a Citro\u00ebn DS, from early works to his latest conundrums.
White Cube Bermondsey, London, until 8 November<\/a><\/p>\n
National Gallery, London<\/a><\/p>\n