Exhibition of the week
Reframed: The Woman in the Window
Rachel Whiteread, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman and others reveal how the depiction of women in Dutch Golden Age paintings has inspired contemporary artists.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, from May 4 to September 4.
Also on display
Radical landscapes
Jeremy Deller’s green neon version of the Cerne Abbas giant and Claude Cahun’s island masquerades are among the subversive versions of pastoral here.
Tate Liverpool from May 5 to September 4.
Loyal to nature: Outdoor painting in Europe 1780-1870
French Impressionism grew out of the tradition of open-air oil sketches explored here, with quickly painted landscapes by Constable, Corot, and others. Works well with Hockney’s current acquisition of the museum.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from May 3 to August 29.
Andreas Gursky
The German artist whose eerie panoramic photographs capture the complexities of modern life shows recent work, including sublime river views.
White Cube Bermondsey, London, from April 29 to June 26.
Archipenko and the Italian Avant Garde
This Kiev-born pioneer of modern sculpture had a powerful influence on the Italian Futurists.
Estorick Collection, London, from May 4 to September 4.
Image of the week
Art clubs popping up around Sydney and Melbourne give artists the chance to draw trans and queer people, burlesque performers and even models in cosplay. Read the full story here.
What we learned
Black British artist Sonia Boyce won the Golden Lion for best national pavilion at the Venice Biennale
For the first time, more women than male artists in the large halls of the biennale
Justine Kurland cut and collaged images from books by 150 renowned white male photographers
There are sandbags in Venice for Ukrainian art
Tracey Emin has a new sense of freedom in Margate
It’s pretty obvious that Walter Sickert claimed to be Jack the Ripper
Museums have weathered the crisis
The National Trust holds the treasures of Polesden Lacey. revealed
A new office plan for London’s South Bank is a brute
Reclaiming heritage fabrics fuels African fashion boom
Masterpiece of the week
Sarah Malcolm, 1733, by William Hogarth
This isn’t one of the savage satires Hogarth is famous for, but a sensitive, compassionate portrait of a woman waiting to die. Sarah Malcolm, a servant, was convicted of the murder of her mistress and two other members of the household, but insisted she was innocent. It was a notorious case, and Hogarth was given access to her cell in Newgate Prison, where he sketched her two days before she was to be hanged. Her eyes are sad and pensive, looking away from us as if she’s going through her life in her mind. Hogarth seems sympathetic to her in his imagery. He probably would have made her face bolder had he believed her guilty. She is portrayed as a victim of a dark and labyrinthine legal system whose shadows surround her as it prepares to swallow her.
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
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