Mixing art and pop in magical ways … David Bowie in 1974. Photograph: Terry O'Neill/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Exhibition of the week: David Bowie Is
David Bowie's song Andy Warhol celebrates – or does it satirise? – the enigmatic guru of New York Pop. Bowie's concept of art pop was steeped in the attitudes and music of Warhol's Factory house band, The Velvet Underground, and he was to become close to its singer and rhythm guitarist Lou Reed – although apparently Reed eventually beat Bowie up at a restaurant in 1979 . That was a bit mean after Bowie had co-produced Reed's classic album Transformer and tried to turn the curmudgeonly street poet into the artful pop star Bowie himself became. What I'm saying is, David Bowie was mixing art and pop in sometimes magical ways when the Damien Hirst generation were ... listening to his records.
• V&A, London SW7 from 23 March, until 11 August
Other exhibitions this week
Simon Starling: Phantom Ride
In his installation in the cavernous neoclassical Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain, Starling revives ghostly memories hidden in the grand architecture, from wartime bombings to famous exhibitions gone by.
• Tate Britain, London SW1, until 20 October
Eberhard Havekost
Paintings from Germany, and they don't come better than that – this Berlin-based artist makes enigmatic and eerie pictures that defy you to decide if they are abstract or representational.
• White Cube Mason's Yard, London SW1 from 22 March, until 11 May
Garth Evans
This influential British sculptor helped to shape a distinctive new aesthetic, more playful and rooted in the everyday than previous modern sculpture, in the 1960s and 70s. This exhibition is curated by his former student Richard Deacon.
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park , West Bretton WF4 from 23 March, until 27 May
Richard Long
Walking through landscapes, making small, temporary, gentle interventions in nature such a pile of sticks or a cairn of pebbles, then evoking his travels in the gallery with photographs and splashy mud drawings – Long is a zen master of British art.
• Whitworth Gallery, Manchester M15, until 16 June
Masterpiece of the week
Photograph: Andrew Morris/The Fitzwilliam Museum The Death of Hippolytus, by Peter Paul Rubens, c1611
This is a tiny painting by the Baroque standards of Rubens and all the better for it, as his tremendous energy and imagination and colour are concentrated in a compact explosion of violence, horror, and lurid beauty.
• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge CB2
Image of the week
Dorothy Iannone's The Next Great Moment In History Is Ours, 1970, now showing at the octogenarian's new show at Camden Arts Centre in London What we learned this week
Why 80-year-old sexual artist Dorothy Iannones is art's original bad girl
That Richard Wright has created a starry, starry night in the new Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
What dry runs of missions to Mars in the Utah desert look like
That a new show is pitting Leonardo's anatomical drawings against modern scans – and finding that the polymath had a near-perfect vision
A new electronic tattoo has been designed so doctors can monitor your health remotely
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