Revolutionaries from Mexico, long-neglected stars from Sudan, and the whole Museum of Contemporary African Art hits the UK. Plus the house that lets you levitate – all in your art roundup
*Exhibition of the week*
*Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940*
When did the art of the Americas first become globally influential? Was it when Jackson Pollock put canvases on the floor and dripped paint on them? Wrong. In the early 20th century, the art of the Mexican revolution dazzled Europeans and north Americans alike with a bold visionary freedom and new sense of space. This exhibition revisits one of the great stories of modern art, in which mural painters including Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco made art social in scope and scale. Pollock was inspired by them to paint big. Here is the liberating power of modern art at its most political.
• Royal Academy, London W1J from 6 July until 29 September
*Other exhibitions this week*
*Ibrahim El-Salahi*
This Sudanese modernist who incorporates African and Arab themes in a style not unlike Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland gets his first major British show.
• Tate Modern, London SE1 from 3 July until 22 September
*Eduardo Paolozzi*
The collages of Eduoardo Paolozzi are dreams of the consumer society pasted together from American magazines by an artist in austerity Britain – pop visions of things that were to come.
• Pallant House Gallery, Chichester PO19 from 6 July until 13 October
*The Spirit of Utopia*
The idea of utopia has waxed and waned in political thought since it was invented by Thomas More in the Renaissance, but it lives on in the artists in this show including Peter Liversidge, Superflex and Theaster Gates.
• Whitechapel Gallery, London E1 from 4 July until 5 September
*Meschac Gaba*
The Museum of Contemporary African Art is an installation that combines the structure of a museum with the atmosphere of a west African market.
• Tate Modern, London SE1 from 3 July until 22 September
*Masterpiece of the week*
*Mosaic mask of Tezcatlipoca, Aztec/ Mixtec, 15th/16th century*
The art of Mexico reaches deep into history. When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 16th century they confronted the majestic and cruel Aztec empire, whose art is as searing and vibrant as its sacrifices were terrible.
• British Museum, London WC1B
*Image of the week*
*What we learned this week*
That every one of you can fly – and scramble up buildings like Spidey
That a new camera captures not just images but your favourite smells too
How sexy the new Vermeer show is
What the best of Arles photography festival looks like – a week before it opens
That LS Lowry was a Tory rent collector – and that he was twice offered the job as the Guardian's art critic
How to close the girl gap in the world of design
*And finally...*
Share your art about water (which is now even easier via GuardianWitness)
Check out our Tumblr
Or follow us on Twitter Reported by guardian.co.uk 8 hours ago.
*Exhibition of the week*
*Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940*
When did the art of the Americas first become globally influential? Was it when Jackson Pollock put canvases on the floor and dripped paint on them? Wrong. In the early 20th century, the art of the Mexican revolution dazzled Europeans and north Americans alike with a bold visionary freedom and new sense of space. This exhibition revisits one of the great stories of modern art, in which mural painters including Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco made art social in scope and scale. Pollock was inspired by them to paint big. Here is the liberating power of modern art at its most political.
• Royal Academy, London W1J from 6 July until 29 September
*Other exhibitions this week*
*Ibrahim El-Salahi*
This Sudanese modernist who incorporates African and Arab themes in a style not unlike Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland gets his first major British show.
• Tate Modern, London SE1 from 3 July until 22 September
*Eduardo Paolozzi*
The collages of Eduoardo Paolozzi are dreams of the consumer society pasted together from American magazines by an artist in austerity Britain – pop visions of things that were to come.
• Pallant House Gallery, Chichester PO19 from 6 July until 13 October
*The Spirit of Utopia*
The idea of utopia has waxed and waned in political thought since it was invented by Thomas More in the Renaissance, but it lives on in the artists in this show including Peter Liversidge, Superflex and Theaster Gates.
• Whitechapel Gallery, London E1 from 4 July until 5 September
*Meschac Gaba*
The Museum of Contemporary African Art is an installation that combines the structure of a museum with the atmosphere of a west African market.
• Tate Modern, London SE1 from 3 July until 22 September
*Masterpiece of the week*
*Mosaic mask of Tezcatlipoca, Aztec/ Mixtec, 15th/16th century*
The art of Mexico reaches deep into history. When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 16th century they confronted the majestic and cruel Aztec empire, whose art is as searing and vibrant as its sacrifices were terrible.
• British Museum, London WC1B
*Image of the week*
*What we learned this week*
That every one of you can fly – and scramble up buildings like Spidey
That a new camera captures not just images but your favourite smells too
How sexy the new Vermeer show is
What the best of Arles photography festival looks like – a week before it opens
That LS Lowry was a Tory rent collector – and that he was twice offered the job as the Guardian's art critic
How to close the girl gap in the world of design
*And finally...*
Share your art about water (which is now even easier via GuardianWitness)
Check out our Tumblr
Or follow us on Twitter Reported by guardian.co.uk 8 hours ago.
