Exhibition of the week
Mare: Living in the country
The Musée d'Orsay awarded Millet's legendary Angelus for this trip to the dark side of the landscape.
National Gallery, London, until October 19th
Also show
Aubrey Levinthal
Excellent, subtle paintings from the streets and sofas by Philadelphia.
Inby Gallery, Edinburgh, until September 13th
Wael Shawky
Brilliant census of the history of East and West as well as the surreal puppets and sculptures that occur in them.
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, until September 28th
Despite it
Shai's public sculpture The magic or dream celebrates 25 years of Somerset House as an art venue.
Somerset House, London, until September 14th
Andy Warhol
Powerful examples of Warhol's works from the artist rooms were a cool, long -term eye in the modern world.
Lightbox Gallery, Woking, until November 2
Image of the week
Peter Kennard bridges art and politics and has produced some of our most influential pictures of resistance and dissent since the 1970s. Gaza, his new exhibition with graphic work, shows multimedia prints, which he killed in response to the daily news and the recordings of the nearby Gaza and thousands of Palestinians. It runs alongside the Edinburgh Festival in the Palestinen Museum Scotland from August 9th to 31st.
What we learned
A great show by Edinburgh Art Festival combines queer kings and modern miracles
The “Untitled” show by Whitney is reopened by the book on American history
Spaceship designers have seen the future … and it is vegetarian and polyamorous
With teamwork and determination, a group of local baskeway in the Australian desert conquered the art world in the storm
Popstar Kate Jackson reinvented herself as an artist of the British motorways
The performance artist, set designer and director Robert Wilson never stopped crossing borders
Copenhagen has a second little mermaid – and it has to be
After newsletter promotion
The coffee table book by Juergen Teller via Auschwitz is shockingly boring
Stanley Donwood looked back on 30 years and created Radiohead's works of art
Masterpiece of the week
Landscape With a water mill by François Boucher, 1755
In this painting from about a century ahead of Millet's barren farmers' scene The Angelus, the French landscape looks a much more cheerful place. Soft focus trees form a velvety blue-green sanctuary for a mill, whose halapidation and Cray Trippers Bickers beat as delightfully picturesque. In fact, it only looks as a dreamy idyll, inspired by Chinese landscape scenes that were very popular in Europe of the 18th century. You can imagine the aristocratic customers of Boucher, who enjoyed in this view of country life and even built a watermill like this as a garden for garden next to their water feature. And yet a drawing by Boucher apparently indicates from this place that it can actually represent a real water mill next to his.
National Gallery, London
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