Art Weekly: The most radical year in art history, and a new Gangnam Style

Having trouble viewing this email? The most radical year in art history, and a new Gangnam Style – the week in art Was 1913 the most avant garde year ever? Plus Anish Kapoor and pals do Gangnam Style, and Gerry Adams hangs in the National Portrait Gallery – all in today's weekly art dispatch Jonathan Jones guardian.co.uk, Friday 16 November 2012 05.33 EST Jump to comments (…) Radical nude … Caryatid (1913) by the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, one of the heroes of modernism whose work is on show at the Henry Moore Institute. Photograph: The Garman Ryan Collection, The New Art Gallery, Walsall Exhibition of the week: 1913 – The Shape of Time Heroes of modernism from Guillaume Apollinaire to Umberto Boccioni to Giorgio de Chirico appear in this highly interesting exhibition. It is called The Shape of Time because the curators argue that in 1913 radical ideas about time found expression in sculpture. Artists attempted to show not only different viewpoints but different moments in simultaneous images. This was a moment in art that cherished complexity and sought difficulty: the epoch of the high modernist avant garde at its brilliant and sometimes profound zenith. • Henry Moore Institute, Leeds LS1, 22 November to 17 February 2013 Other exhibitions this week Now I Gotta Reason After countrifying Frieze Art Fair, Marcus Coates and the Grizedale rural art rebels bring some rusticity to south London. • Jerwood Space, London SE1, until 9 December Ansel Adams Here is landscape photography of deep romantic beauty. • National Maritime Museum, Greenwich SE10, until 28 April 2013 SJ Peploe Latest in a series of exhibitions celebrating the Scottish Colourists. • Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh EH4, until 23 June 2013 Bronze Do not miss the last chance to see this astoundingly rich show of great bronze sculpture from ancient Greece to Jasper Johns. • Royal Academy , London W1J, until 9 December Masterpiece of the week A dream guardian … Hypnos (1st-2nd century). Photograph: British Museum, London Hypnos Possibly Roman copy of Greek original, 1st-2nd century AD A masterpiece of poetic art. Hypnos is the god of sleep and somehow when you look at this dreamy, winged face you feel soothed, calm, ready to close your eyes and slumber happily. It is a dream guardian. Like many ancient works of art that survive, it is a Roman copy of a lost Greek sculpture. The original was made in the Hellenistic era, the later age of Greek civilisation when art became subjective and personal. The earlier "classical" Greek style is concerned with perfection. Hellenistic artists are more interested in expression. Hypnos is a Hellenistic delve into the mysteries of the unconscious. • British Museum, London WC1 Image of the week Anish Kapoor makes a Gangnam Style video in his studio in south London. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian What we learned this week Anish Kapoor has brought the art world together to recreate Gangnam Style in support of Ai Weiwei That there's a plan to redevelop garages into pop-up housing for homeless people That the National Portrait Gallery has acquired a work of Gerry Adams What state the Royal College of Art is in as it hits the grand old age of 175 And how all of their most famous students have come together to celebrate Who the stars of Middle Eastern art are And finally ... Would you like to work for Julian Opie? You can Share your art on the theme of government now Follow us on Twitter And 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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