Anish Kapoor at Prayer and a Giant Pumpkin in the Park: The Week in Art

Anish Kapoor’s artwork finds a fitting home in Liverpool Cathedral’s grand gothic spaces. The intense colours and spatial paradoxes of Kapoor’s pieces create a compelling dialogue with the architectural grandeur of the cathedral. This exhibition runs until September 15.

In Kensington Gardens, London, Yayoi Kusama’s giant pulsing dotted orange and black pumpkin brings her distinctive art into the open air, available for viewing until November 3.

The Dulwich Picture Gallery in London hosts “Looking for Leonardo,” recounting the founders’ desperate quest to acquire a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece. This exhibition is open until January 26, 2025.

A retrospective of acclaimed sculptor Phyllida Barlow’s work can be seen at Hauser and Wirth Somerset in Bruton, Somerset. It features everything from sprawling monuments to dinky maquettes and runs until January 5, 2025.

Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury, Suffolk, presents “Revealing Nature,” showcasing the works and lives of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines. This exhibition also explores their roles as lovers and the creators of an art school that nurtured renowned artist Lucian Freud. The show is available until November 3.

Anastasia Samoylova’s “FloodZone” images encapsulate a blend of documentary and art photography. These dreamlike, unsettling photos evoke the atmosphere of a world facing impending catastrophe while attempting to maintain normalcy. A new book, “Adaptation,” offers a chronological survey of her career. Her works will be on display at the Saatchi Gallery in London and the Met in New York this autumn.

In Miami, photographer Anastasia Samoylova pondered the paradox of how such a place could exist. A new exhibition traces the relationship between money and art from ancient Rome to Joseph Beuys.

Not everyone is thrilled to discover a Banksy artwork on their property. Meanwhile, the words of artist-activist Margarida Tengarrinha give grounding to a new film, “Clandestina.”

Peruvian artist Claudia Martínez Garay reimagines her Indigenous heritage through her art. The late painter Alan Gouk, who passed away at 84, remained committed to modernism throughout his life.

A forthcoming documentary highlights the Ukrainian artists defying Putin’s aggression.

The masterpiece “The Virgin and Child with Musical Angels” by the Master of the St Bartholomew Altarpiece, circa 1485-1500, is an exemplary piece where the visible and invisible, everyday and supernatural worlds intertwine. The Virgin Mary’s face is portrayed as real and ordinary, much unlike the classical perfection favored by Italian artists of the time. As she offers Jesus her breast milk, the scene is filled with tiny angels playing musical instruments, creating a celebration of a lifelike moment infused with heavenly charm. Likely commissioned for private devotion, it reflects the mentality of devotion to the Virgin Mary just before the Reformation began. Today, it can be viewed at the National Gallery in London.

Source: The Guardian