Art weekly: Tate Britain's killer rehang could make it an essential space

Having trouble viewing this email? Tate Britain's killer rehang could make it an essential space – the week in art The gallery's long-awaited chronological reshuffle will include dedicated Blake, Turner and Moore sections. Plus, Frieze New York ruffles artworld feathers – all in your weekly art roundup Jonathan Jones guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 May 2013 12.56 EDT Jump to comments (…) Ready and Abel … Tate Britain's chronological rehang is finally a done deal, and comes complete with a dedicated William Blake section. Photograph: Tate Britain/PA Exhibition of the week: Walk through British art This major new hang of the permanent collection at the national gallery of British art promises a chronological overview of art in Britain since the Tudor age. It includes special displays on William Blake and Rose Wylie. Special attention is also being paid to Turner and Henry Moore . Will this, at last, be the killer rehang that finally makes Tate Britain an essential museum? • Tate Britain, London SW1P from 14 May until 20 January Other exhibitions this week Leon Kossoff Paintings of London by one of the most compelling artists of this city of mud and steel. • Annely Juda Fine Art, London W1S until 6 July Eva Rothschild and Clare Woods Rothschild's abstract sculptures and Woods's neo-Romantic paintings pay contemporary homage to British art in the mid-20th century. • New Art Centre, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP5 from 18 May until 14 July About Face The Barber Institute of Fine Arts is marking its 80th anniversary with this ambitious survey of the history of portraiture, including masterpieces by Rembrandt and Cézanne. • Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, from 17 May until 1 September A Monumental Act The first Act of Parliament to preserve Britain's architectural and historical landscape was passed a hundred years ago. This exhibition celebrates that moment of enlightenment. • Engish Heritage Quadriga Gallery, Wellington Arch, London W1J until 7 July Masterpiece of the week Winning formula … JMW Turner, Apollo and Python, exhibited 1811. Photograph: Tate Good and evil, reason and madness are powerfully contrasted in this primal vision of Greek myth. The god Apollo, a glowing figure of virtue, destroys the monster serpent of chaos, Python. It marks a transition from primeval disorder to the reign of the gods. Turner's imagination sets this dawn of a new world against awe-inspiring natural powers that dramatise the profundity of Apollo's triumph. • Tate Britain, London SW1P Image of the week Every dog has its day … Paul McCarthy's giant Balloon Dog has been making mischief in New York. Photograph: John Berens/Frieze What we learned this week That a giant balloon animal has put Jeff Koons, Frieze New York, and perhaps even the whole artworld, in the doghouse That V&A visitors will soon be able to have a brush with Chinese national treasures so fragile they have never left Asia That "the last beat poet", who was also Andy Warhol's muse and buttock model, has passed away aged 88 Why Madonna's painting of Leger's modernist material girls was worth every penny it made at Sotheby's this week That Nobuyoshi Araki's photography is more art than porn That young upcoming artist Eddie Peake has moved on from naked five-a-side football to a Staffordshire terrier sculpture made from marble That the future's communal – and that self-builds could be the answer to the UK's housing crisis And finally … Share your art on the theme of home now Follow us on Twitter now Or check out our Tumblr You are receiving this email because you are a Art Weekly subscriber. Click here if you do not wish to receive Art Weekly emails from the Guardian News and Media. Click here to find out about other Email Services from the Guardian. Guardian News & Media Limited - a member of Guardian Media Group PLC. Registered Office: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU. Registered in England No. 908396

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