Art weekly: Outsider geniuses and blue crystals

Having trouble viewing this email? Outsider geniuses and blue crystals – the week in art Obscure visionaries dazzle at the Hayward Gallery's Alternative Guide to the Universe, and Roger Hiorns' blue-crystal flat arrives at its new home in Yorkshire – all in your weekly art roundup Jonathan Jones guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 June 2013 12.00 EDT Jump to comments (…) Unfettered creativity … Paul Laffoley's The Thanaton III (1989), on show in London's Alternative Guide to the Universe exhibition Exhibition of the week The Alternative Guide to the Universe Ideas and images from the margins, outsider visionaries and obscure geniuses populate this exhibition that forms part of the South Bank's Festival of Neighbourhood. Ever since Picasso feted the Douanier Rousseau, modern art has sought to embrace alternative talent. The untrained, unfettered creativity celebrated here will hopefully prove eccentric brilliance is alive and well. The show features eminent outsider culture experts The Museum of Everything. • Hayward Gallery, London SE1, from 11 June until 26 August. Other exhibitions this week Rembrandt and His Contemporaries Magical paintings from 17th-century Holland lent by the Royal Collection, including Rembrandt's profound study of old age, The Artist's Mother. • Holburne Museum, Bath, until 29 September. A Crisis of Brilliance The contemporary passion among curators and art historians for British modernism continues in this show dedicated to the generation of artists who graduated from the Slade on the eve of the first world war. • Dulwich Picture Gallery, London SE21, from 12 June until 22 September. Cornelia Parker In her new work, this surrealist exploder of the everyday has cast spaces between paving stones in a cemetery where William Blake is buried. • Frith Street Gallery, London, from 7 June until 27 July. Roger Hiorns Hiorns was shortlisted for a Turner prize for his eerie blue crystal cavern, Seizure, a subterranean realm of beauty created in the unlikely setting of a derelict flat. Now it has a permanent home in Britain's leading sculpture park. • Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire, from 15 June. Masterpiece of the week, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Helene Rouart in Her Father's Study (c1886) In this powerful and unnerving portrait, a young woman seems hemmed in and overshadowed by the objects in her father's study. A mummy case speaks of death and solemnity. She is in danger of being mummified, we fear, in her father's world. • National Gallery, London WC2N. Image of the week Flying colours … Marc Chagall, The Green Donkey (1911). Photograph: ADAGP Paris and DACS, London 2013 What we learned this week Why Chagall's so much more than just greeting-card art What your most precious photographs are That billboards all over the UK are about to become the world's biggest gallery – and you can vote for what adorns them How Dutch architects are transforming the world using waste That this year's Serpentine summer pavilion looks like a cross between a giant trellis and a scene from Tron That nonagenarians have taken over this year's Royal Academy summer show And finally … Share your artworks in progress with us Follow us on Twitter 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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