Exhibition of the week
Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now
Powerful designs and suggestive sketches by artists including Cézanne and Bridget Riley as well as the Renaissance masters make this touring exhibition from the British Museum a treasury of small wonders.
• Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now, Poole Museum and Art Gallery, Dorset, 3 September - 6 November.
Also showing
Dinh Q Lê
The strange world of a Pacific island inhabited by thousands of birds whose guano once made it a goldmine is explored in this film installation on the site of one of Britain’s first cinemas.
• Artangel, 133 Rye Lane, London, 25 August- 9 October
The Tanks
When you visit the new Tate Modern don’t miss the shadowy expressionist architecture of The Tanks or the experimental art varying from an interactive light installation by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster to a multi-screen immersive video by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It will do your head in. I mean that as praise.
• Tate Modern, London, ongoing
Dou in Harmony
The way Dutch artists depicted musicians in the 17th century is explored in this small exhibit looking closely at two paintings by Gerrit Dou.
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, until 6 November
Martin Creed
What could be more summery than conceptual art on a Somerset farm? Last chance to see Creed’s latest maverick thoughts.
• Martin Creed, Hauser and Wirth Somerset, Bruton, until 11 September
Masterpiece of the week
Michelangelo Epifania cartoon 1550-1553
Michelangelo invented conceptual art; he was famous in his time for his “divine concepts” – the ideas behind his works, as opposed to their execution. This is a case in point – a full-sized design for a painting he never executed, but instead let his pupil Ascanio Condivi paint. It is an obscure and erudite work about the supposed siblings of Christ, yet Michelangelo’s marvellous shading makes it sublime.
• Michelangelo Epifania cartoon, British Museum, London
Image of the week
What we learned
Art experts count the damage to historic Italian buildings from the Amatrice earthquake
An Islamic extremist pleads guilty to the destruction of shrines in Timbuktu
... but should cultural destruction be classed as a war crime? Perhaps not
Bansky’s spy booth mural in Cheltenham is feared permanently destroyed
Forget 3D printing Palmyra. Viollet-le-Duc shows what good restoration looks like
A US court has ruled what Peter Doig already said – that he’s not Peter Doige
We took a tour with the original revolutionaries before V&A’s Revolution show
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History is filling up
Blind photographers talk about their work – more of which you can see here
Sandrine Kerfante’s pictures of twins will make you see double
London’s Olympicopolis – branded dull as ditchwater” – could have looked like this
And check out the unbuilt London of architect’s dreams – monorails and all
Vic Reeves is to present a new series on art as BBC4 goes gaga for dada
Grimm fairytales you can touch ... behold the work of Shaun Tan
This lot can really cut it ... the artists making collage cool again
And finally ... this paper artist is making a right meal out of things
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