Megamurals, Guerrilla Girls and something rotten in the Oval Office – the week in art
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<p>Poland’s leading figurative artist de-faces Trump, feminist art rebels squat in East Sussex, and the UK’s street art is captured – <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/19/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email">all in your weekly dispatch</a></p><p><strong>Wilhelm Sasnal: family/history <br></strong>The domestic meets the political in these unsettling new paintings of family life and global current affairs (including some greyed-o
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Megamurals, Guerrilla Girls and something rotten in the Oval Office – the week in art Poland’s leading figurative artist de-faces Trump, feminist art rebels squat in East Sussex, and the UK’s street art is captured – all in your weekly dispatch Exhibition of the week Wilhelm Sasnal: family/history The domestic meets the political in these unsettling new paintings of family life and global current affairs (including some greyed-out visions of the Oval Office) by Poland’s leading figurative artist. Sadie Coles HQ , London, until 23 May Also showing Joan Eardley: The Nature of Painting Scotland’s favourite rough, ultra-expressive mid-century painter gets paired with the likes of John Constable, Claude Monet and contemporaries such as Jean Dubuffet. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art , Edinburgh, until 28 June Tizta Berhanu: Love Is a Practice Soft, gentle, subtle group portraits all about interconnectedness and social closeness by this young Ethiopian painter. Tiwani Contemporary , London, until 16 May Guerrilla Girls The infamously rebellious feminist art collective bring their hypercritical takedowns of art world inequality to this modernist home in the East Sussex countryside. Charleston , Lewes, until 6 September Shane Keisuke Berkery: Shane, Come Back The debut London exhibition for this young Irish-Japanese painter is full of complex explorations of the slippery nature of identity. Carl Kostyál , London, until 3 May Image of the week Lola the Barras Pirate in Glasgow is just one of 6,700 street murals digitised by Art UK for its incredible digitised catalogue , including everything from medieval church wall paintings to photorealistic portraits of local heroes and a high-rise-stretching decorative motif by Poole Pottery. Katey Goodwin, Art UK’s deputy chief executive, said the charity far exceeded its target of finding 5,000 works, reflecting the explosion of murals in the UK. “It has gone from seeing a few murals here and there to them being everywhere,” sh...
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