A feminist Pirelli calendar and the rise of Donald Dump – the week in art
Pirelli has a bit of a gear change with Annie Leibovitz’s portraits. Plus a high-speed tour of Art Basel Miami Beach, and how Donald Trump the pottymouth sparked an art movement – all in your weekly art dispatch
- theguardian.com, Friday 4 December 2015 12.00 EST
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The Ommeganck in Brussels on 31 May 1615: The Triumph of Archduchess Isabella (detail), by Denys van Alsloot, 1616. Photograph: Victoria and Albert MuseumExhibition of the week
Europe 1600-1815
These new galleries at the V&A cover one of the most spectacular periods of European art, architecture, design and fashion, from the baroque to the age of Napoleon. They ought to be fabulous.
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7, from 9 December.
These new galleries at the V&A cover one of the most spectacular periods of European art, architecture, design and fashion, from the baroque to the age of Napoleon. They ought to be fabulous.
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7, from 9 December.
Other exhibitions this week
Anne Hardy: FieldHardy’s “landscapes” use everyday objects, found materials and photography to represent space and time.
• Modern Art Oxford, until 10 January.
• Modern Art Oxford, until 10 January.
Maisons Fragiles Louise Bourgeois, Isa Genzken and Eva Hesse are among the modern giants in this group show about architecture and vulnerability.
• Hauser and Wirth, London W1, from 11 December to 6 February.
• Hauser and Wirth, London W1, from 11 December to 6 February.
Essex Road IIA piece about Joe Orton by Uriel Orlow is among the eight artists’ films in this show that also stars Jordan Baseman, Melanie Manchot and Helen Benigson.
• Tintype, London N1, from 10 December to 16 January
• Tintype, London N1, from 10 December to 16 January
Transformation
A celebration of cross-dressing, all taken from the wardrobe of Peter Farrer – who was born in 1926 and has been cross-dressing since he was a teen – amid one of Britain’s finest collections of art.
• Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, until February 2017
A celebration of cross-dressing, all taken from the wardrobe of Peter Farrer – who was born in 1926 and has been cross-dressing since he was a teen – amid one of Britain’s finest collections of art.
• Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, until February 2017
Masterpiece of the week
Perseus Turning Phineas and His Followers to Stone, by Luca Giordano (1632-1705). Photograph: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images
Luca Giordano – Perseus Turning Phineas and His Followers to Stone (early 1680s)Flesh turns grey and bodies freeze in this eerie painting. Perseus, having slain and beheaded the gorgon Medusa, holds up her gory head as a weapon that can turn his enemies to stone. Giordano plays on energy and stillness, life and death, in this spectacular masterpiece of the baroque age.
• National Gallery, London WC2
• National Gallery, London WC2
Image of the week
Pirelli calendar 2016: December – Amy Schumer, by Annie Leibovitz.
