Exhibition of the week
Frieze Sculpture Park
Tracey Emin, Barry Flanagan and John Baldessari are among the artists decorating Regent’s Park with a free survey of the state of sculpture.
Regent’s Park, London, 4 July until 7 October.
Also showing
Glenn Brown
The decadent and erudite imagination of Glenn Brown is maturing into a wonder of modern painting.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, until 21 October.
Jameel prize
Artists and designers who draw in different ways on Islamic tradition, from Hala Kaiksow’s couture to Wardha Shabbir’s abstract art.
V&A, London, until 25 November.
Matisse Prints
A graphic encounter with the impeccable master of modern art.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 6 July until 15 September.
Idea of North
As part of the Great Exhibition of the North, this group show featuring Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Matt Stokes and more explores the concept of a northern identity.
Baltic, Gateshead, until 30 September.
Masterpiece of the week
The legend of Saint Sebastian has licensed some of the most powerful homoerotic images in art. It was Oscar Wilde who first pointed this out when he wrote about his response to Guido Reni’s sensual Baroque vision of a nude Sebastian. Honthorst’s painting is even more provocative. Painted under the influence of the subversive genius Caravaggio, it sets out to shock and confuse. Honthorst had recently travelled from his native Utrecht to Rome, where he joined the “Caravaggisti”, painters who emulated this notorious rebel’s use of light and shadow and passion for raw reality. Soon after he got back to the Netherlands he painted this bold exploration of desire, pain and death. The uncomfortable conjunction of beauty and horror is sharply emphasised by that bright Caravaggesque light that heightens and isolates the impaled body.
National Gallery, London.
Image of the week
Hero, giant, four-eyed alien … the National Portrait Gallery’s fascinating show On the Wall reveals how the king of pop inspired artists to project on him all manner of idealistic and perverse ideas.
What we learned
Why graffiti artists risk their lives …
… Vandalism or art? Graffiti artists’ deaths have reignited debate
Michael Jackson is the ultimate muse
How art merch broke out of the gift shop
Timber! Michael Kenna has an eye for magical trees
Moroccan artist Younes Rahmoun conjures a cosmic world
How to hurricane-proof our homes
What New York is like, through the eyes of the queen of street photography
Picasso at my sister’s wedding party: Tina Barney explained her best shot
We remembered Philando Castile through art
South African photographer David Goldblatt has died aged 87 …
… And he caught apartheid’s grotesqueness –without ever letting anger take over
The £10,000 Jarman award shortlist includes works on architecture and artificial intelligence
James Henry Pullen was one of the strangest geniuses of the 19th century
Architectural Association is awaiting its “Spanish tornado”
We remember influential designer Martin Hunt
How Iranian art is challenging preconceptions
Marlene Dietrich cut a striking figure at the Palladium
Christo’s floating installation in London makes a big impression
There’s beauty amid the flipside of the American dream
Photography Nigerian women’s elaborate hairstyles has many meanings and messages
What the 20 photos of week are
Alison Wilding is an artist whose time has come
Lee Miller and Viviane Sassen take on photography and the female gaze
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