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Anish Kapoor Also showing<\/p>\n Hepworth in Colour Hold to this Earth Summer Exhibition Georg Baselitz: Back Again Image of the weekUntitled (Face in Dirt), 1991, by David Wojnarowicz. Photograph: Lisa Mitchell\/David Wojnarowicz<\/p>\n Setting the mood for this year\u2019s Glasgow International \u2013 held in venues across the city until 21 June \u2013 is an exhibition of the work of David Wojnarowicz. A star of the 1980s New York art scene, the artist was a gay man in a violently homophobic world whose work documented and spoke out against the US\u2019s handling of the Aids crisis, before his Aids-related death aged 37. The show, our critic writes<\/a>, \u201cserves as a fierce reminder that art is worth fighting for, and of what can be achieved through community and comradeship by those willing to take risks.\u201d<\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n David Hockney, the revolutionary and beloved British artist, died aged 88<\/a><\/p>\n \u2026 his work was a feast of visual pleasure<\/a> and his fashion sense was inspirational<\/a> too<\/p>\n New York\u2019s Chelsea Hotel resident Bettina had to sleep in the hallway as she\u2019d stuffed her flat with art<\/a><\/p>\n Caragh Thuring\u2019s art is cosmic, chaotic and quietly rebellious<\/a><\/p>\n Artists are making \u2018anti-slop\u2019 to rebel against AI<\/a><\/p>\n An exhibition of the worst album covers ever has opened in Mansfield<\/a><\/p>\n Billy Dosanjh, \u2018the Edward Hopper of the Black Country\u2019, captured Sikh life in Walsall<\/a><\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week<\/p>\n A Discussion by Circle of Pontormo, probably mid-1520s<\/p>\n Photograph: Circle of Pontormo<\/p>\n It\u2019s often assumed that modern artists such as Van Gogh and Matisse pioneered the free, expressive use of colour but as this painting illustrates, the chromatic power of art had already been liberated centuries before them in 16th-century Florence. The city\u2019s mannerist school, especially Jacopo Pontormo and his followers, created gossamer realms of drapery in ethereal pinks and electric blues, as here, that levitate their wearers. The two men in the foreground are talking seriously about politics or religion, with eloquent hand gestures, under a vaulted loggia, yet their scintillatingly bright garments don\u2019t seem the garb of dignified city elders or holy saints. Where do such colours come from? One possible source is Leonardo da Vinci, who actually did go around early 1500s Florence wearing such colours, according an inventory he made of his clothes. But a more widely acknowledged inspiration of the mannerists was Michelangelo, whose paintings break with the naturalism of Renaissance colour and are full of quirky, weightless hues. Pontormo took inspiration from Michelangelo to paint religious scenes in which depth and space dissolve in sensual floating brightness. This artist in turn emulates Pontormo\u2019s mysterious, ecstatic visions. 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 sublime is unleashed in a blockbuster spectacle by this modern master of colour, space and mystery.
Hayward Gallery, London, from 16 June to 18 October<\/a><\/p>\n
You can hear the mermaids singing in this gathering of blue and white visions by the great St Ives sculptor.
Courtauld Gallery, London, until 6 September<\/a><\/p>\n
Contemporary Indigenous North American artists including Dakota Mace, Virgil Ortiz, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and more bring an ecological vision to the Yorkshire hills.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield, from 13 June to 18 April<\/a><\/p>\n
It\u2019s that time of year again and an army of enthusiasts from all over Britain get their work on the walls of Burlington House alongside the likes of Tracey Emin and Grayson Perry.
Royal Academy, London, from 16 June to 23 August<\/a><\/p>\n
A farewell from one of the giants of modern German art whose great late works rage, rage against the dying of the light.
White Cube Bermondsey, London, until 30 August<\/a><\/p>\n
National Gallery, London<\/a><\/p>\n