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Mind-altering montage, Taylor Swift’s costume crawl and Constable goes west – the week in art
By Jonathan Jones,
1 day ago
Exhibition of the week
Incubator, 1986, by Peter Kennard. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist
Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent The veteran montage artist and activist gets a retrospective of his incisive images. • Whitechapel Gallery, London , until 19 January
Also showing
Taylor Swift Songbook Trail A free fun Swift extravaganza that leads you through the museum’s displays to find her outfits and costumes. • V&A, London , 27 July to 8 September
An Irish Impressionist The spontaneous landscape paintings of Belfast-born Sir John Lavery. • Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh , until 27 October
Sculpture in the City Hilary Jack and Julian Opie are among the artists exhibiting sculpture among the City’s office blocks and medieval churches. • City of London venues until 2025
Constable in Bristol The Hay Wain, on loan from the National Gallery, is shown with art by Richard Long, Peter Lanyon and more. • Bristol Museum and Art Gallery until 1 September
Image of the week
This video still shows an 1645 English civil war coin an art student swapped for a fake at the British Museum . Ilê Sartuzi’s stunt aimed to highlight the large number of foreign objects the British Museum holds and to question what counts as theft. He deposited the coin in the donations box before leaving the museum.
There’s a radical new informality to this scene of the 19th century seaside. A girl who has been swimming rests while the family maid combs her hair – the kind of natural moment you would look long and hard to find in any British painting from the time when Degas painted this beach in northern France. By 1874, the experimental daring of Degas and others would be labelled Impressionism. But this is not a simple “impression”. On a closer look, a family walking in beach robes look like formally posed figures from a 15th century fresco and a couple by the shore are posed like cartoonish cut outs. Degas said he finished the picture in his studio, not on the beach. It is a provocative blend of observation and irony that shows his rare and elusive artistic mind. • National Gallery, London
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