Art weekly: Show me the Manet

Having trouble viewing this email? Show me the Manet – the week in art The Royal Academy celebrates the great French painter, Formica the wonder surface hits 100, and Tate Britain finds a new side to LS Lowry – all in your weekly art dispatch Jonathan Jones guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 January 2013 08.34 EST Jump to comments (…) Manet's Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets, 1872. Photograph: RMN (Musee d'Orsay)/Herve Lewandowski. Click on magnifying glass to enlarge Exhibition of the week Manet: Portraying Life This survey of the great 19th-century French painter through his portraiture promises to be one of the events of the year. The only problem I can see is how they will summon the nerve to go back to celebrating a dull heritage of Royal Academicians after this demonstration of why France's art has historically been so much more electrifying than Britain's. • Royal Academy, London W1J, from 26 January to 14 April Other exhibitions this week Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands Feminist artists of the 1970s including Rose English and Carolee Schneemann. • Karsten Schubert and Richard Saltoun, London W1, from 23 January to 8 March William Scott Modernist postwar British painting returns, like the seasonal sea birds, to St Ives. And so nature's cycle continues. • Tate St Ives, TR26, from 26 January to 6 May Kris Martin Conceptual art from Ghent, Belgium might make a fine contemporary accompaniment to the Manet blockbuster up the road. • White Cube, London SW1Y, from 18 January to 16 March Seduced by Art Last chance to see this flawed but interesting encounter between photography and painting. • National Gallery, London WC2N, until 20 January Masterpiece of the week Claude Monet, The Gare St-Lazare, 1877 Station master … Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877, by Claude Monet. Photograph: Burstein Collection/Corbis Say Manet and you sound cool. Say Monet and it sounds chocolate box. But as this smokily poignant scene shows, both were radical painters of modern life. Monet here captures the passing romance of modernity, the sad beauty of stations, steam, farewells. All that is solid melts into air. • National Gallery, London WC2N Image of the week Tickled pink … A detail from A Country Road. A Tree. Evening. Somewhere Between Tonygarrow and Cloon Wood, Below Prince William's Seat, Glencree, Co Wicklow (2007), by Gerard Byrne. Photograph: Whitechapel Gallery What we learned this week What a pseudo-Sinatra, Waiting for Godot sets and roundtables with Playboys have in common That Formica has turned 100 That artist duo Elmgreen and Dragset are planning to make mischief at the V&A That a US college student has singlehandedly revolutionised the home 3D-printing industry That there seems to be a sizeable architectural scrap over the new $1bn Iraq parliament building That Tate Britain are paying homage to the matchstick master of the North, LS Lowry And finally … There's a new Share your art theme: portraits. Send us yours now Follow us on Twitter now Or check out our Tumblr Looking for a new job at the Tate? 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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