Art Weekly: Matisse, Munch and mischievous tapestries

Having trouble viewing this email? Matisse, Munch and mischievous tapestries – the week in art The fruits of Matisse's manual labour are revealed, Munch takes Scotland by storm, and Grayson Perry tackles class issues in new tapestries – all in your favourite weekly art dispatch Jonathan Jones guardian.co.uk, Friday 8 June 2012 11.16 EDT Comments (…) Detail from Portrait of Helena Fourment, c1630-31, by Peter Paul Rubens, at Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery. Photograph: The Courtauld Gallery Exhibition of the week: Mantegna to Matisse Drawings are the purest and most intimate documents of how artists see, feel, and shape the world. Old paintings may well have undergone extensive restoration, so that it is hard to tell what is authentic and what is added. Even works that are undamaged may have been the work of assistants as well as the "master" of a workshop. Drawings, however , are the direct manual labour of an artist sitting there, pressing down a point against a sheet of paper. This gallery has a tremendous collection of such scintillating survivals and if you have never had the chance to visit, go, and see its tremendous permanent collection too. • Courtauld Gallery, London, from 14 June until 9 September Other exhibitions this week Invisible Art that you can't see! Those crazy curators! • Hayward Gallery, London, from 12 June until 6 August Jo Spence A radical artist remembered. • Studio Voltaire, London, until 11 August Edvard Munch The dark heart of Scandinavia laid bare. • Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, until 23 September Summer Exhibition The dark heart of the Home Counties laid bare. • Royal Academy, London, until 12 August Masterpiece of the week Titian's Tarquin and Lucrezia Titian's Tarquin and Lucretia, 1570. Photograph: Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge One of Titian's most powerful and troubling works, this late painting reveals the violence and danger behind the windows of Venetian palaces. Titian was the supreme painter of sensual beauty in 16th-century Venice but here he depicts a rape. This is a true masterpiece that looks as if it was painted with smoke and blood. • Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Image of the week Cross-dressing chevalier ... a detail from the Chevalier d'Eon by Thomas Stewart. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery, London The National Portrait Gallery in London has bought a portrait of celebrated diplomat, soldier and cross-dresser Chevalier d'Eon. What we learned this week Why the Royal Academy has launched a new pamper plan What Grayson Perry's new 'middle class' tapestries look like Why Jenny Holzer has been painting the US battleplans for the invasion of Iraq Why a catcopter has taken the art world by storm What your art on the theme of Britain looks like – roadworks, union jacks and all And finally Have you seen the Guardian Art and Design Flickr page? Share all your latest cultural snaps there Or share all of your artworks with us Or follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Check us out on Tumblr Sign up for the Art Weekly newsletter Share Tweet this 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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