Exhibition of the week
The flooded garden
An artistic adventure playground for all ages, inspired by Monet's water lily garden and designed by painter Oscar Murillo.
Tate Modern, London, until August 26
Also displayed
Oscar Murillo
Alongside his summer extravaganza at the Tate Modern, Murillo is exhibiting his paintings in the Regency treasure that is Burlington Arcade.
Burlington Arcade, London, 25 July – 24 August
Paris 1924
A look at the brilliant modernist cultural world of Paris when it last hosted the Olympics 100 years ago.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 19 July – 3 November
Goshka Macuga
An installation that explores the archaeology and past of London, from ancient Roman Londinium to modern times.
Mithraeum Bloomberg Space in London until January 18
The “death” of the living room
Life drawings by artists including David Hockney and Edward Burne-Jones are featured in this exhibition about changing attitudes to arts education.
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, until January 12
Picture of the week
The National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh have acquired one of the finest works by the women who worked alongside men at the Glasgow School of Art in the closing years of the 19th century. Bessie MacNicol’s The Lilac Sunbonnet is a light-filled, joyful painting of a young girl in the countryside; her deft brushstrokes perfectly capture the dappled rays of sunlight. Indeed, the work is imbued with all that was best about the movement that brought Scottish painting into the modernist era. It is now clear that many of the Glasgow Girls were at least as good as the Boys, and some were even better. Read the full story here.
What we learned
Hidden self-portrait of Norman Cornish found on back of another painting
Bill Viola, 'The Rembrandt of the Video Age,' Dies at 73
Donald Trump's defiance has created an image that echoes works of frontier heroism
Sculptor Hany Armanious said his casts of discarded objects were about redeeming waste
Paris wants to organize the most economical and ecological Olympic Games ever organized
The creators of a new exhibition at Tate Modern say artists should harness the power of AI
Prints of the felled Sycamore Gap tree to be exhibited
Jamaican sculptor Ronald Moody's work exudes humanity
Dover Castle to 'rise from ashes of 1216 siege' in digital exhibition
Masterpiece of the week
Poplars on the Epte by Claude Monet, 1891
The delirium of reflections that makes Monet’s paintings of his water-lily pond so captivating is already apparent in this painting, painted the year after he moved to Giverny, where he created the garden he would spend his final years painting. Here he marvels at the mirrored surface of a river whose shimmering ripples hint at an inverted world. Painting from a boat, Monet approaches this illusion upside down and pays as much attention to it as he does to the “reality” above: the painting is roughly divided in two along the bank, between the material world and its watery shadow. Monet depicts the trees, clouds, and blue sky both in the right direction and as they appear reproduced on the shimmering river. The artist whom Cézanne called “a simple eye” shows here that he has a deep and poetic mind.
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
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