 | | Powered by readers, open to all. | | | |  | Utopian cities, medieval manuscripts and a queen in mourning – the week in art | | | One of Britain's earliest artworks goes on show in Newcastle while the Design Museum is looking to the future and there are surreal sculptures in London – all in your weekly dispatch | | |  |  Elusive shapes … Maria Bartuszová: Untitled 1972–1974, soon on show at Tate Modern. Photograph: Michael Brzezinski/Courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery, London
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| | | Exhibition of the week Maria Bartuszova
Surreal, elusive shapes by a Slovak sculptor who defied Communist rule.
• Tate Modern, London, 20 September to 16 April Also showing Lindisfarne Gospels
Mesmerising medieval manuscript in a show that juxtaposes it with contemporary art.
• Laing Gallery, Newcastle, 17 September to 3 December Michael Armitage
The gifted Gauguinesque painter shows new works, plus ceramic sculptures by Seyni Awa Camara.
• White Cube Bermondsey, London, 21 September to 30 October Victor Willing
Paintings by the husband of the late Paula Rego, who predeceased her in 1988.
• Timothy Taylor, London, 22 September to 5 November Yinka Ilori
Optimistic, utopian art and design that reimagines the city.
• Design Museum, London, until 25 June 2023 Image of the week | | | | |  | Georg Baselitz, Orangenesser (IX), 1981. Photograph: © Georg Baselitz 2022; photo: Friedrich Rosenstiel, Köln
| | | | | | Now in his 80s, Georg Baselitz has lost none of the fiery spirit that earned him the "degenerate" artist label. The arch provocateur talks about his eye-opening art, chronicling his old age and his true feelings about female painters. Read our full interview here. What we learned Wolfgang Tillmans is in a thoughtful mood ahead of a career retrospective Renato Casaro was the Michelangelo of the movie poster William Klein, who has died aged 96, revolutionised photography There's a fight on to save Birmingham's 'brutiful' architectural masterpieces Whether idealised, gilded or defaced, Queen Elizabeth's image appeared regularly in our art Carolee Schneemann's work was a riposte to macho American conservatism France's Banksy is a street artist who fills potholes Photographer Johny Pitts and poet Roger Robinson took a tour of black Britain in a Mini LS Lowry's Going to the Match is up for auction John Louis Petit, aka Britain's "forgotten master" is finally enjoying a moment in the sun Masterpiece of the week | | | | |  | | | | | | | | Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo: Queen Mariana of Spain in Mourning, 1666
The widow of King Philip IV of Spain looks at you with disconcerting intimacy in this study of royal grief. But it's not only sadness weighing her down. The official document in her hand is a sign that she has work to do, for Queen Mariana ruled as regent when this was painted. Spanish royal portraiture had recently been taken to unprecedented heights by Velázquez, who served Philip IV and died in 1660. This painting echoes his brilliant sense of reality: it even alludes to his masterpiece Las Meninas with its deep view of the interior of the royal palace. It creates a slice of life, a moment we accept is unfeigned and unstaged – the Queen revealing her emotions, here in the shadows where only her dog consoles her.
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