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Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas Self-portrait by Maggi Hambling. Photograph: Courtesy the artist and Frankie Rossi Art ProjectsAlso showing<\/p>\n Beatriz Milhazes Stanley Spencer Roger Fry Alfred Buckham: Daredevil Photographer Image of the weekUS Border Patrol agents pose at the sculpture Cloud Gate, also known as the Bean, by Anish Kapoor. Photograph: Colin Boyle\/Block Club Chicago\/Reuters<\/p>\n \u201cThis is fascist America and it is beyond belief,\u201d said Anish Kapoor of this photo showing his sculpture Cloud Gate, known to local Chicagoans as the Bean, being used as a backdrop by border patrol agents. The agents were reportedly celebrating after \u201cmilitary style<\/a>\u201d immigration enforcement raids where, the artist said, they were \u201cabducting street vendors, breaking doors, pulling people from cars, using teargas on residential streets\u201d. Kapoor filed a lawsuit in 2018 against the National Rifle Association, which used the sculpture in an advert<\/a>, and settled out of court. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit more complicated with this,\u201d he said of the more recent incident, \u201cbecause they\u2019re a full, if you like, national army unit.\u201d Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n A third of US museums have lost government funding since Trump took office<\/a><\/p>\n More than 150 Tate staff members will strike over pay this month<\/a><\/p>\n An image of a burn survivor has won the Taylor Wessing photo portrait prize<\/a><\/p>\n Harlem\u2019s rehoused Studio Museum is a new destination for Black art in New York<\/a><\/p>\n Artist Luke Jerram is planting a living installation of 365 trees<\/a><\/p>\n Japanese-American photojournalist Jun Fujita shot early 20th-century Chicago \u2013 and Al Capone<\/a><\/p>\n A BBC film raises the possibility that JMW Turner may have been neurodivergent<\/a><\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Artists and writers shared their advice on how to live life artfully<\/a><\/p>\n Guerrilla mosaics are brightening cities from Southampton to Sarajevo<\/a><\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week<\/p>\n A Young Man Holding a Ring by Follower of Jan van Eyck, c1450<\/p>\n A Young Man Holding a Ring by Follower of Jan van Eyck, c1450 Photograph: Heritage Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n It never rains but it pours. Or, in the Flemish words written under rain clouds in this late medieval painting, her las uber gan meaning \u201cLord, let it pass over\u201d. The pattern of clouds pouring out black lines of rain, on stripes of white and blue, decorates a wall behind a man who\u2019s holding up a ring between finger and thumb. You can tell it\u2019s a wall painting, and not an abstract background, because he casts a shadow on it: for this is a technically revolutionary painting influenced by the great Bruges artist Jan van Eyck. Even the way the unknown portrait sitter holds up a ring is derived from a similar gesture in a Van Eyck painting. What does it all mean? A ring could symbolise love and marriage, or he could be a goldsmith. But I reckon this well-dressed, chubby-faced character is a merchant and the ring signifies wealth (just as the Medici family had diamond rings as a symbol.) If that\u2019s so, his wall painting of rain clouds and prayer to God for better times probably refers to weathering financial storms.<\/p>\n National Gallery, London<\/a><\/p>\n 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
These two very different artists became friends after meeting at the Colony Room (where else?) and now show together in an encounter of British art generations.
Sadie Coles HQ, London, 20 November to 24 January<\/a><\/p>\n
This kaleidoscopic abstract painter shows her latest complex machineries of geometry and colour.
White Cube Mason\u2019s Yard, London, 19 November to 17 January<\/a><\/p>\n
The unique British painter with a medievalist yet modern vision gets a showing in Suffolk, whose landscapes he painted.
Gainsborough\u2019s House, Sudbury, 15 November to 22 March<\/a><\/p>\n
An art critic often credited with bringing modernism to Britain more than a century ago gets a rare show of his own paintings.
Charleston, Lewes, 15 November to 15 March<\/a><\/p>\n
Stormy skies over Scotland captured by this heroic pioneer of aerial photography.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, until 19 April<\/a><\/p>\n