Online exhibition of the week
Picasso and Paper
Take a video trip through the dizzying abundance of Picasso’s creativity and see how many surprising uses a genius can find for a piece of paper.
• Royal Academy, London.
Also showing digitally
Johanna Unzueta: Tools for Life
Political and social commentary from this Chilean-American artist is made immediate by a mini-documentary and virtual exhibition.
• Modern Art Oxford.
National Gallery walk through
Take a virtual stroll around the National Gallery with Google Street View, seeing masterpieces by Leonardo, Botticelli and Van Gogh.
• National Gallery, London.
Jim Dine
The latest show by this radical and endlessly creative American visionary can be enjoyed in a film without sound.
• Cristea Roberts Gallery, London.
This Corrosion
A video tour of a group show that stars Tasha Amini, Lisa Brice, Allison Katz and more.
• Modern Art, London.
Image of the week
A mural by street artist Lionel Stanhope on a bridge wall in Ladywell, south-east London. All round the world, the coronavirus outbreak is the subject of topical, colourful and attention-grabbing street art. See more.
What we learned
How to support artists struggling in lockdown, from home
David Hockney urged us to escape lockdown through drawing
A lockdown twist on the portrait opened doors
Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson charmed with their coronavirus cartoons
A couple donated 100 artworks collected on their trips across Britain to Hepworth Wakefield Gallery
Cosmic visions of conquering space laid behind the iron curtain
Rene Burri’s shadowy figures made for a memorable shot of São Paulo
Trolls on tour and Raphael’s search for beauty were among the week’s best culture, indoors
A Boston exhibition on John Singer Sargent and race in the US was conquered by coronavirus, but its catalogue is required reading
… the collection of Derby Museum and Art Gallery …
… 17 and 18th-century treasures at Bath’s Holburne Museum …
… and the Ulster Museum’s collection in Belfast
Tracey Emin’s lockdown diary is a heady mix of black paint and hot cross buns in the bath
Creating a masterpiece at home could be as simple as making a tuna sandwich …
You can take a virtual tour around the Tate Modern’s Andy Warhol exhibition
The Arts Society is launching a free online arts programme aimed at the over-70s
Why tiny figures have the power to bring photojournalists’ images to life
An online art sale, including works by Henry Moore and Bill Brandt, is raising money for the NHS
Pivotal moments captured by Magnum photographers went on sale to aid Covid-19 relief
This ‘healing’ Louise Bourgeois exhibition can be experienced online
A New York journal combats isolation by sending out artworks in the post
How to build a hospital in nine days – the emergency architecture of the coronavirus pandemic
The artist with the remote-controlled robotic body talked making a career ‘out of being a failure’
Sheila Rock caught the faces of punk just as it all went haywire
Art offers vital comfort in times of crisis
How a new era of virtual culture is dawning in the face of crisis
The British Museum looks to crack an egg mystery
A photographer hits the boardwalk to capture the eccentric life of Atlantic City
Masterpiece of the week
Christ Crucified (1475) by Antonello da Messina
The art of this Sicilian visionary is beautifully pure, intense and passionate. Antonello was one of the first Italian artists to explore the subtlety of oil paints, which he learned about from Flemish paintings that made their way to the court of Naples. Here he uses that refined skill to paint a very human, vulnerable Christ whose agony on the cross is all the more touching for being realistic, without the gore and horror of medieval art. Antonello anticipates Michelangelo in making us feel an almost sensual compassion for Jesus. This is an eloquent pared back Easter egg of powerful feeling.
• National Gallery, London.
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