Exhibition of the week
Ai-Da: Portrait of the Robot Enter the uncanny valley with this realistic humanoid robot who can draw herself. Is that art? So what is art? Plenty to think about. Read more.Design Museum, London until 29 August
Epic Iran Theres enough beauty here to fill several exhibitions - but this trip through 5,000 years of cultural history works because of the sheer quality of the exhibits. An eye-opener. Read our five-star review. V&A, London, 29 May-12 September
Royal Portraits: From Tudors to Windsors We seem as fascinated by the monarchy as ever, one way or another. This exhibition reveals how the images of British royals have been shaped since the Renaissance. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 28 May-31 October
Conversations With God A free exhibition about the 19th-century Polish artist Jan Matejkos history painting of the revolutionary astronomer Copernicus, this is the first time the National Gallery has ever shown Polish art. National Gallery, London, until 22 August
Nero: The Man Behind the Myth Some wonderful things here, from statues of Nero and other members of the imperial family to Pompeiian frescoes, whatever you think of the exhibitions thesis that Nero was not the monster history has made of him. Read more. British Museum, London, until 24 October.
An enormous space rocket could be next up on Trafalgar Squares fourth plinth or a Ghanaian grain silo, a bobbly man, a giant jewellery tree, missionaries in Africa, or a memorial to murdered transgender women. Six shortlisted ideas have been unveiled at Londons National Gallery for the sculpture commission, which rotates normally every 18 months, and the public can help pick two winners, to be installed in 2022 and 2024.
Google is changing its photo algorithms to better reflect skin tones of colour
Celebrity merchandise is flooding art auctions
while the rush for digital NFTs comes at an environmental cost
Tacita Dean was baffled by the pandemic lockdown
Will Londons vast 22 Bishopsgate office block ever be full?
British mosques have a starring role at this years Venice Architecture Biennale
Art historian Laurence des Cars is the first female president of the Louvre
Ming Smith was one of the few women in Kamoinge, a collective of black photographers
while a Beverly church is putting inspiring women up near the rafters
Melbournes venerable Flinders Street station is reopening as a gallery space
but the Rising festival it forms part of paused after one day as Melbourne closed down
Female sculptors challenge art world sexism in joint show Breaking the Mould
Beware wolves and bears in Matthew Barneys intriguing new film
Kenyan artist Michael Armitage is reinventing the European oil-painting tradition
Matador academies, Ukrainian prom night and other adolescent rites of passage have caught the eye of photographer Michal Chelbin
Australias Archibald portrait prize is 100 and still controversial
This years finalists were unveiled in Sydney
and we looked back at some past highlights
The race is on for the best Milky Way portrait
Derbys new Museum of Making is a temple to manufacturing
Award-winning film-maker Ayo Akingbade is charting Londons changing face
Nero was framed for the burning of Rome
Coal and Georgian terraces were inextricably interlinked, according to a new book on architectures environmental impact
Wynn Bullock made the Monterey peninsula look mythic
Theres been a outbreak of public art on the UKs south-east coast
while Hastings is full of FILTH (failed in London, try Hastings) with beautiful homes
Scotland needs knitters
Art loves a crowd
Technology is not doing David Hockney many favours
New Yorks Spring Valley suburb photographed by Al J Thompson is another victim of gentrification
Tony Hall has resigned from the National Gallery following the fallout from the Martin Bashir row
Jen Orpin has painted the motorway journey she took to visit her dying father
Heather Phillipson worships the UK weather forecast
Amish girls like to paddle at the beach
Memento mori applies to animals too
Paul Graham returned us to Thatchers Britain
Eric Carle, writer-illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died
The late Mary Beth Edelson was a key figure in feminist art
We also remembered Brazilian architect Paolo Mendes da Rocha
avant garde emissary Mark Lancaster
and landscape painter Leslie Marr
The Abb Scaglia adoring the Virgin and Child, 1634-35, by Anthony van DyckTwo centuries of Flemish art lie behind this emotional encounter between a man and the mother of God. Van Dyck portrayed his patron Scaglia for a church in Antwerp, putting his fretful and careworn praying presence in a direct and intimate reciprocal relationship with Mary and Jesus. Its a move that epitomises the passionate, unbuttoned baroque style that flourished in 17th-century Catholic Europe. Yet it is also a nod to Van Dycks local Flemish forerunners; 200 years earlier, Jan van Eyck was painting wealthy people in similar close encounters with the Virgin, including in his great Madonna of Chancellor Rolin in the Louvre. Van Dyck updates the genre with a waft of Baroque silks and a breath of sky.National Gallery, London
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Ai-Da the robot painter, Iranian epics and a gaze at God the week in art - The Guardian
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