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Show of the week
Winston Churchill: Artist
The outspoken British warlord kept to himself by smoking cigars, smoking cigars – and painting the world around him.
The Wallace Collection, Londonfrom 23 May to 29 November
Also show
Kira Freija
There are shades of Berlin Dada in the bare metal by the Turner-shortlisted artist.
Modern Art Oxford from 23 May to 16 August
Miriam Elia
A famous artist The genius takes Ladybird’s books turned his eye to Moses at this Jewish Culture Month event.
JW3, Londonuntil 30 June
Liam Young
Futuristic but lo-fi worlds you can walk through, a series of settings to find hope for our world.
Barbican, Londonuntil 6 September
Zsuzsi Ujj
The first solo exhibition in the UK of this collective figure in the unconventional art of Hungarian music and underground music.
Arcadia Missa, Londonfrom 22 May to 18 July
Picture of the week
Tapp und Tastkino (Tap and Touch Cinema) was an evocative yet charming 1968 film by the fearless Austrian artist and filmmaker Valie Export, who died this week. Disrupting the beauty standards on the silver screen, her film gave people the opportunity to interact with and experience the real female body: hers. We explained the life of Export and its work This article and asked some expertsincluding Maphesi, Florentina Holzinger and Joan Jonas, whose example has greatly affected them.
What we learned
Taiba Akhuetie creates wild creations from hair – Rihanna and Cate Blanchett are fans
Whistler could have used better paint to paint his mother
Nina Simone’s chewing gum is taking place in a new show celebrating the great
Grayson Perry’s life story should be made into a song
Gen Z can’t touch the king of color, Mark Rothko
Sanya Kantarovsky’s Christian portraits and children will haunt you
Mine of the week
The Judgment of Paris by Joachim Wtewael, 1615
Do not dare to judge the gods; the loser can’t take it lying down. Here, the Trojan Prince Paris is foolish enough to try the beauty of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, Venus, the goddess of love, and Juno, the wife of the king of the gods and celestial powers in himself. He rewards Venus for helping him seduce Helen, the wife of a Greek king. From this time the Trojan War began, with the Greeks supported by an angry Juno. For a 17th century artist there is a sinister piquancy here. War ravaged Europe in the 1600s, from the war between Wtewael’s Holland and the Spanish Empire to the 30 years’ war that would soon destroy central Europe. Maybe that’s why this recording feels so wet and unsteady. Wtewael’s bony, angular style, which tends to be a deliberate, fun twist to conventional beauty or harmony, is known as traditional. Here, they fill the forest with rich, eye-catching flowers, feathers and feasts – yet there is an abundance of it all that portends destruction.
National Gallery, London
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