Ai Weiwei's button installation at Aviva Studios leads this week's art highlights
Ai Weiwei's exhibition 'Button Up!' opens at Aviva Studios in Manchester from 2 July to 6 September, featuring an installation about world history, colonialism, and buttons. Lindsey Mendick presents wild and hilarious ceramics exploring personal trauma at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, from 28 June to 30 August. Anne Hardy's eerie figurative sculpture installation mixing bronze, ceramics, and found materials is at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, from 27 June to 27 September. 'The Artist's Frame' group show with Matilda Bevan, Carolyn Blake, Filippo Caramazza and others addresses the theme of frames in art at Bobinska Brownlee New River, London, until 25 July. Xanthe Somers and Yacout Hamdouch have a colourful exhibition marrying Somers's eye-fooling stoneware with Hamdouch's abstract paintings at October Gallery, London, from 2 July to 15 August. The image of the week is Frida Kahlo's 'Self-Portrait (With Velvet Dress)' from 1926, coinciding with a new exhibition at Tate Modern. The masterpiece of the week is Jan Provoost's 'The Virgin and Child in a Landscape' from the early 16th century at the National Gallery, London.
Key facts
- Ai Weiwei's 'Button Up!' runs from 2 July to 6 September at Aviva Studios, Manchester.
- Lindsey Mendick's exhibition runs from 28 June to 30 August at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate.
- Anne Hardy's installation runs from 27 June to 27 September at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
- 'The Artist's Frame' group show runs until 25 July at Bobinska Brownlee New River, London.
- Xanthe Somers and Yacout Hamdouch exhibition runs from 2 July to 15 August at October Gallery, London.
- Frida Kahlo's 'Self-Portrait (With Velvet Dress)' from 1926 is the image of the week.
- Jan Provoost's 'The Virgin and Child in a Landscape' from the early 16th century is the masterpiece of the week at the National Gallery, London.
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Entities
Artists
- Ai Weiwei
- Lindsey Mendick
- Anne Hardy
- Matilda Bevan
- Carolyn Blake
- Filippo Caramazza
- Xanthe Somers
- Yacout Hamdouch
- Frida Kahlo
- Jan Provoost
- Jan van Eyck
- David Hockney
- Frank Bowling
- Kawada Kikuji
- Iwane Ai
- Helen Cammock
- Thomas More
- Raphael Hythloday
Institutions
- Aviva Studios
- Factory International
- Carl Freedman Gallery
- Talbot Rice Gallery
- Bobinska Brownlee New River
- October Gallery
- Tate Modern
- National Gallery, London
- Chelsea Arts Club
- National Portrait Gallery
- The Guardian
Locations
- Manchester
- United Kingdom
- Margate
- Edinburgh
- London
- Bruges
- Belgium
- Flanders
- Kerala
- India