A Mess Up At The Holy Palate (2011) by George Little. Photograph: Bloomberg New Contemporaries Images
Exhibition of the week: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012
Who can tell what is good and promising in brand new art? Who can choose the most promising people graduating from art schools? The judges of New Contemporaries, that's who, and they have been taking on this challenge since 1949 (well, not the same judges, obviously). This is a tremendous event, a real chance to encounter artists you have never heard of and see what the latest generation is up to. Great to see it at the ICA for the third year running. Go, get your art raw and wild.
• ICA, London SW1, from 28 November until 13 January 2013
Other exhibitions this week
Furniture
Is furniture art? Of course it is, from 18th-century chairs to modernist tables, and this new gallery will give the V&A collection the star billing it deserves. Yet another enrichment of a museum that is London's most blissful to wander through.
• V&A, London SW7, from 28 November
Antony Gormley
Uh huh, what's he come up with this time...
• White Cube Bermondsey, London SE1, from 28 November until 10 February 2013
Heman Chong and Anthony Marcellini
An exhibition that investigates "the social life of objects".
• Wilkinson, London E2, from 25 November until 27 January 2013
The Far and the Near
The winter exhibition at Tate St Ives explores how artists who lived in St Ives interacted with international movements in the 20th century.
• Tate St Ives, Cornwall, until 13 January 2013
Masterpiece of the week
Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci. Photograph: David Levene Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin of the Rocks, finished 1506-8
The greatest painting in Britain? Yes, and one of the greatest in the world. The Virgin of the Rocks exerts a complex imaginative pull very different from other paintings. The imagery of the Virgin, Jesus, and young St John the Baptist secluded in a mountain grotto is Leonardo's own curious invention. The blue mountainous, watery vista beyond interacts mysteriously with the figures. The angel who attends them is one of Leonardo's most miraculous pieces of painting. Here are beauty, spirituality, and glimpses of some deep unconscious realm.
• National Gallery, London WC2N
Image of the week
A photograph taken by the Duchess of Cambridge during a private walk through part of the jungle, close to the Danum Valley research station, Borneo. Photograph: PA What we learned this week
That the Duchess of Cambridge has turned her hand to photography
What exploding pomegranates and ostrich stomachs have in common
Why Hockney's so miffed by a tree-feller
That James Franco is going to man an art gallery pop-up shop this Christmas in London
Why Sarah Lucas is no more than an old hippie
How art embraced the digital age
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