Exhibition of the week
Online Print Fair
Artists have been making prints ever since printing began. The art is still going strong as this event featuring Aliyah Hussain, Christopher Jarratt, Janet Milner, Print Wagon, West Yorkshire Print Workshop and many more proves.
The Hepworth, Wakefield, until 28 March.
Also showing
The Penalty of Our Paradox
A new film for Site Gallery and supported by Historic England explores how young people experience the high streets of Sheffield.
Site Gallery online.
Collier Schorr
Haunting photographs of German youth from the 1990s and a new film by this gender-busting portraitist.
Modern Art online until 18 April.
Peter Kennard
The anti-war activist and radical montagist explores how history is rewritten by its winners.
Richard Saltoun Gallery online until 10 April.
Rothko Room
Currently hanging next to Turner’s landscapes – as Rothko himself wanted – and closed until 17 May, you can at least explore the great Seagram murals and their story online and meditate on art that takes you to the edge of consciousness.
Tate Britain online.
Image of the week
Christie’s auctioned a digital collage by artist Beeple for $69.4m in an online sale that the auction house said “positioned him among the top three most valuable living artists”. The sale further illustrates the tipping point that digital art has reached. You can read all about it here.
What we learned
The Imperial War Museums launched a £2m project for new art on conflict
LA’s Latino lowrider culture is still going strong
Why Time Team artist Victor Ambrus was one of Britain’s leading illustrators
NFTs are the art world’s bitcoin …
… with Christie’s selling its first digital-only artwork for $70m
Unseen Eve Arnold photos of Marilyn Monroe are being offered as £30 posters
Bill Harkin, designer of the Glastonbury Pyramid stage, has died
Photographer Bas Losekoot asked: ‘Is it time to rethink the city?’
Hong Kong is losing its magical neon signs
Australia’s Covid-ravaged arts community needs government leadership
Art detective Charley Hill, who recovered Munch’s stolen The Scream, has died
The Great Pottery Thrown Down became a tearjerking hit
Australian photographer Ponch Hawkes shot 400 nude over-50s women in a year
A rare 1959 Andy Warhol cookbook, Wild Raspberries, is going under the hammer
Banksy’s Game Changer painting will auction at Christie’s on 23 March to raise money for the NHS
Thomas Randall-Page’s Art Barn proves a hut in the woods can be high art
Two-thirds of staff at the V&A’s National Art Library are facing redundancy
A certain coronavirus is the current artists’ muse du jour
The Great British Art Tour visited ‘Our Emmeline’, a female ballooning first, an English country garden, Titian’s Perseus and Andromeda, and Scotland’s ‘high priestess of the grotesque’
Masterpiece of the week
Carlo Crivelli, Mary Magdalene, c1491-4
Crivelli portrays Mary Magdalene, the former sex worker who became one of Jesus Christ’s closest followers, as a seductive and commanding Renaissance woman in richly glamorous clothes, with her hair long and curled. He may have been looking at portraits and mythological scenes by Botticelli, who put female beauty at the centre of Italian art in the 1480s. But this is part of an altarpiece, from a church. What’s Crivelli playing at? There’s not much repentance or piety in this Magdalene’s eyes. Crivelli had to leave his birthplace Venice after being convicted of adultery. This painting surely reflects his own sinful nature.
National Gallery, London.
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