British Landscapes, Wendy McMurdo, and Jack White Debut in Art Weekly Roundup

The Guardian's Art Weekly roundup highlights several exhibitions and art news. The exhibition of the week is 'British Landscapes: A Sense of Place' at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, running from 30 May to 1 November, featuring works from Gainsborough to Hepworth. Other notable shows include Lisa Ivory's gothic paintings at Gramercy Park Studios, London until 26 June; Jack White's debut exhibition at Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery, London until 13 September; Delaine Le Bas's mystical works at Maureen Paley Gallery, London from 4 June; and Wendy McMurdo's 30-year survey at Portrait, Edinburgh from 30 May to 25 October. The image of the week features Canadian painter Steven Shearer's work 'Tokerman'. Additional news includes the death of British abstract painter Tess Jaray at 88, a new artwork from the Sycamore Gap tree, Phyllida Barlow disrupting a stately home, two artists auctioning works for a renewables plant in Nigel Farage's Essex seat, a fraudster foiled trying to sell fake ancient statues to Sotheby's, and a Leonora Carrington painting made in a psychiatric hospital shown for the first time. The masterpiece of the week is Palma Vecchio's 'Portrait of a Poet' (c. 1516) at the National Gallery, London.