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Extraction Also showing<\/p>\n Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Oulton: Holding Patterns Michaela Yearwood-Dan: The Practice of Liberation Paula Rego: Story Line Jack O\u2019Brien: Leisure Image of the week Photograph: Nasa\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Images taken by astronauts generally tend to induce feelings of awe and stunned amazement, a sense of humanity\u2019s smallness and transitoriness in the face of geological time and galactic vastness. Many images taken from Artemis II this week \u2013 humanity\u2019s first trip beyond low-Earth orbit since 1972 \u2013 bring up those same feelings. But this photo, of Earth setting over the moon, is different, more ominous and threatening, more terrifying and desolate. Forget the doe-eyed pale blue dot<\/a>-isms of the rest of Artemis II\u2019s photos<\/a>, this is the photo for our times. Bleak, grim and incredibly scary.<\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n Cult 1950s comic hero Dan Dare is being rebooted<\/a><\/p>\n The architect behind the Tokyo Olympic stadium has been chosen for the National Gallery, London\u2019s new wing<\/a><\/p>\n Spanish politicians are not happy about a request to move Pablo Picasso\u2019s Guernica<\/a><\/p>\n The Mexican artworld is not happy about plans to send Frida Kahlo works to Spain<\/a><\/p>\n Iconoclastic musician Arca has taken to painting to combat burnout<\/a><\/p>\n Pet Shop Boys have a huge career retrospective book coming out<\/a><\/p>\n A nifty Japanese printing gadget is uniting artists worldwide<\/a><\/p>\n South Korea\u2019s rapidly evolving architectural highlights are jaw-dropping<\/a><\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week Photograph: \u00a9 Peter Doig. Courtesy of Tate.<\/p>\n Peter Doig, Echo Lake, 1998 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
This ominous exhibition takes a look at the filthy world of oil, gas and petroleum, all seen through the lens of artists such as biomorphic sculptor Marguerite Humeau and digital wizard John Gerrard.
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh<\/a>, 11 April to 26 July<\/p>\n
Thick, gloopy, heavily textured semi-abstract paintings of landscapes by one of the first women to be nominated for the Turner prize (in 1987).
Vardaxoglou, London<\/a>, 11 April to 29 May<\/p>\n
Painting, ceramics, sound, poetry, post-colonial theory and diaristic writing get mashed together for this young artist\u2019s dizzying debut UK museum exhibition.
The Whitworth, Manchester<\/a>, 17 April to 18 October<\/p>\n
An intimate, museum-quality look at how important drawing was to this hugely important Portuguese artist\u2019s practice, focusing on sketches, studies and archival material.
Victoria Miro, London<\/a>, 16 April to 23 May<\/p>\n
The wrap star \u2013 and winner of the 2023 Frieze emerging artist prize \u2013 continues his conceptual adventures in binding everyday materials together.
Maureen Paley, Hove<\/a>, 11 April to 20 June<\/p>\n
The lake in cult slasher flick Friday the 13th represents the trauma of grief, the pain of loss, and the way a calm surface can hide a vast world of darkness. And here it is in one of the most important paintings of the 1990s. British painter Peter Doig saw the film in the 1980s and couldn\u2019t let it go, painting various scenes \u2013 distorted, twisted and reimagined \u2013 throughout the early part of his career. In this jaw-droppingly bleak and stunningly painted nocturnal image, a policeman tries to spot a figure on the lake. That figure is you, the viewer, looking back at him. Doig has always used his painting to process the past, to make sense of how memories falter and fade but ultimately shape you. It\u2019s a kind of emotional processing, where he takes an image, a memory, a place, and works and reworks it over and over. Not for the sake of nostalgia, but to deal with it. In this painting, he\u2019s dealing with the way pop culture can act as a marker of innocence and youth, two things we all lose, and for ever.
Tate Britain, London<\/a><\/p>\n