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Hawai\u2018i Also showing<\/p>\n Nan Goldin Joseph Beuys Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Marshmallow Laser Feast Image of the weekJimmy riddle of the sphinx \u2026 public conveniences on the Victoria Embankment, London. Photograph: Dirk Lindner\/Hugh Broughton Architects<\/p>\n It\u2019s not a toilet \u2013 it\u2019s a revolution! These newly upgraded public loos on the Victoria Embankment, London, were designed in the belief that good architecture improves people\u2019s lives. The hope is that the UK will follow in the footsteps of the Tokyo Toilet project<\/a>, which brought talented architects to design safe, beautiful, accessible public restrooms. Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n A charity raffle is putting a \u20ac1m Picasso portrait up for grabs for \u20ac100<\/a><\/p>\n A museum in Paris received a surprise donation of more than 60 Matisse artworks<\/a><\/p>\n Fela Kuti wanted to open his artist\u2019s mind to marijuana<\/a><\/p>\n The former archbishop of Canterbury believes migrants are at the heart of British art<\/a><\/p>\n Photojournalist Ed Kashi has had a front row seat to witness history<\/a><\/p>\n Belgian artists decried the dismantling of the country\u2019s oldest contemporary art museum<\/a><\/p>\n Art can make you happier, healthier and more hopeful<\/a><\/p>\n The amateur artist infamous for the \u2018monkey christ\u2019 mural mishap, has died<\/a><\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week<\/p>\n A Winter Landscape by Esaias van de Velde, 1623<\/p>\n Photograph: GL Archive\/Alamy<\/p>\n Winter in 17th-century Dutch art often looks communal and jolly with joyous ice fairs, children sledging and rosy-cheeked crowds. But if those are the scenes that make it on to Christmas cards, this is more suited to the January blues \u2013 a disabused recognition of winter\u2019s toughness. Van de Velde paints a dreary and biting afternoon. Isolated figures trudge on an icy road and tree trunks twist eerily in the bleak melancholy light. Even a game on the ice looks dispirited, and the house nearby seems dead and icy rather than offering a warm fire. The chilly realism has a modern sadness that makes you think of later north European artists such as Van Gogh and Munch. 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
Some of the most spectacular masterpieces in the British Museum, including feathered war helmets and glaring gods collected by Captain Cook, make this exhibition created in collaboration with Hawaii community leaders and artists entrancing.
The British Museum, London<\/a>, from 15 January to 25 May<\/p>\n
Dive into desperation in this display of all of Goldin\u2019s images from her classic photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
Gagosian Davies Street, London<\/a>, from 13 January to 21 March<\/p>\n
When is a bathtub not a bathtub? When it\u2019s a Beuys sculpture that resonates with the violence and tragedy of 20th-century Germany.
Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London<\/a>, from 13 January to 21 March<\/p>\n
Graphic works by the great and sensual American artist of landscape and abstraction.
Gerald Moore Gallery, London<\/a>, from 15 January to 14 February<\/p>\n
Multimedia and multisensory recreation of the worlds within a tree by this tech-savvy collective.
The Chapel, Yorkshire Sculpture Park<\/a>, until 15 March<\/p>\n
The National Gallery, London<\/a><\/p>\n