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Exhibition of the week
Theatre Picasso
The Tate collection of Picasso’s revolutionary art is reimagined through a drama-conscious lens.
Tate Modern, London, 17 September to 12 April
Also showing
Radical Harmony
The genius of Seurat shines through a sometimes confused survey of the neo-impressionist movement he inspired.
National Gallery, London, 13 September to 8 February
Kiki Smith
Dreamlike images of animals and humans by this mystic-eyed contemporary expressionist.
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, 18 September to 1 November
Idris Khan
Abstract art - or is it? - inspired by the beauty and ritual of Islamic calligraphy.
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, until 18 October
Harold Offeh: The Mothership Collective 2.0
Interactive installation for adults and children that hopes to inspire utopian speculation.
Baltic, Gateshead, until 1 February
Image of the week
Guardian photographer David Levene took this shot of the Consequences Giant, a colourful new neighbour who took up temporary residence nextdoor to the chalk Cerne Giant on a hillside in Dorset. Painted by schools and community groups in sections totalling 1,200 sq metres of canvas, it may be the largest game of consequences ever played. Read the full story here
What we learned
Banksy’s latest has been hidden from view
Tate Modern plans to put on the largest ever Tracey Emin exhibition
The German city of Dessau is celebrating 100 years of Bauhaus
A portrait looted by Nazis was recovered after appearing in a property ad in Argentina
David Bowie’s personal archive stretched to 90,000 items – and you can request to see any of them
The National Gallery is planning a £375m new wing
after newsletter promotion
The National Gallery and Tate risk falling out over modern art
Interior designer David Flack doesn’t like things matching
Masterpiece of the week
Le Bec du Hoc by Georges Seurat, 1885
Seurat’s revolutionary artistic ideas and ecstatic sense of colour make this painting sizzle and glow, as the solid world becomes a weightless cloud of multitudinous particles. There is nothing more solid than a rock. Yet Seurat reveals that when we look at the world, the colours we mix in our minds have no fixed form at all. He divides perception into many little dots of colour. This “pointillist” method is so all-embracing, you realise you are gazing at an infinitely fractured, molten galaxy of light. Look at the inner face of the cliff, made up of many colours that together we see as violet. The flecks of emerald grass are just as packed with complexity. This painting returns you to life with a new sense of wonder.
National Gallery, London (on long term loan from Tate), and currently in the exhibition Radical Harmony
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