Art weekly: Sebastião Salgado shows us ends of the Earth as Child With a Dove takes flight

Having trouble viewing this email? Sebastião Salgado shows us ends of the Earth as Child With a Dove takes flight The world's wildest landscapes at the Natural History Museum, Qatar buys the Picasso favourite, plus Rachel Whiteread sheds and chairs that build themselves – all in your weekly art dispatch Jonathan Jones guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 April 2013 09.12 EDT Jump to comments (…) The confluence of the Colorado and the Little Colorado from the Navajo territory. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images. Please click to enlarge Exhibition of the week: Sebastião Salgado – Genesis Is Salgado the greatest photographer alive? There may not be much doubt in the minds of visitors to the world premiere of this new body of work, for which he travelled to some of the remotest places on earth, casting his lens on the wildest landscapes and least modernised peoples. Here is black-and-white photography with the brooding power of sublime romantic art. Extraordinary, passionate, imaginative. • Natural History Museum, London SW7 until 8 September Other exhibitions this week Anguish and Enthusiasm "What do you do with your revolution once you've got it?" asks this exhibition that explores the aftermaths of idealistic upheaval from Berlin to Oakland through the art of Andreas Bunte, Trust Your Struggle and others. • Cornerhouse, Manchester M1 from 13 April until 18 August Jennifer Moon Los Angeles artist and revolutionary shows works including a prison memoir. • Transmission Gallery, Glasgow G1 until 27 April Maya Lin New geographical works by the creator of the moving Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. • Pace Gallery, London W1F until 11 May Helaine Blumenfeld Spiritual abstract art in the glorious setting of this Gothic cathedral. • Salisbury Cathedral, SP1 from 13 April until 8 September Masterpiece of the week White American Pelican from Birds of America. Photograph: Natural History Museum John James Audubon, The Birds of America, 1827-38 Was Audubon the first great American artist? His epic project to record America's birds in huge colour plates – which has become the world's most expensive book – was one of those rare moments when science and art are one. The observation and meticulous depiction that make this such a milestone of natural history go along with an almost surreal sense of the lush newness of the world he explored. Audubon's America is a dream continent, inhabited by strange creatures. • Treasures Gallery, Natural History Museum, London SW7 Image of the week Picasso's Child with a Dove, which has likely been bought by Qatar. Photograph: Corbis What we learned this week That Qatar has apparently bought Picasso's Child with a Dove. Last year, the work was banned from being exported from Britain That the heir to the Estée Lauder fortune has donated $1bn of Cubist art to the Met in New York The itinerary for the Artists' Party Conference in Scarborough – which factors in all-night parties and a grizzly beach breakfast What stools that look like pig rumps and chairs resembling Global Hypercolour T-shirts have in common Why Rachel Whiteread's in shed heaven That Project Cyborg could create objects that can build themselves How tricky the art of a state funeral is And finally … Share your art on the new theme of home now Follow us on Twitter now Or 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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