Art weekly: Van Gogh's true colours exposed

Having trouble viewing this email? Van Gogh's true colours exposed – the week in art Research proves how much the master's works have faded since the 1880s, plus Oz art goes walkabout, rubber ducks and Fourth Plinth cock-ups – all in your favourite weekly art roundup Jonathan Jones guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 May 2013 07.35 EDT Jump to comments (…) Block party … David Batchelor's Hackney Road Drawing (2003). Photograph: Fruitmarket Gallery Exhibition of the week: David Batchelor – Flatlands This artist of found colour has an eye for neon greens and shiny reds in the unlikeliest places, such as goods trolleys. His installations and sculptures rejoice in the arbitrary beauty of the modern world. In this exhibition, another layer to his art is revealed – for the first time, it surveys his paintings and drawings. • Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, from 4 May until 14 July Other exhibitions this week Ellen Gallagher In Ellen Gallagher's Bird in Hand, a fantastical pirate poses among early-Rothkoesque swirls in a meditation on the slave trade – just one of the beguiling works in this show. • Tate Modern, London SE1, until 1 September Garry Fabian Miller Eerie photographic images of the place where empty sky meets empty sea, in the first complete showing of this series of near-abstract pictures of sea horizons begun in 1976. • Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, until 13 July Alexander Calder The mobiles of this ingenious American are surrealist, and abstract, and highlights of the 20th century. • Pace Gallery, London W1S, until 7 June Jutta Koether Dense, knotty abstract paintings by an artist who churns contemporary subject matter into pungent labyrinths. • Arnolfini, Bristol, from 4 May until 7 July Masterpiece of the week Talking sense … Mark Rothko's Untitled (c1950-2). Photograph: Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/DACS Mark Rothko, Untitled (c1950-2) The layers of varied yellow over a pinkish veil in this painting reveal Rothko's acute gift for colour. It was a passion he struggled with, as his sensual talent conflicted with his bleak view of the universe. In this powerful work he is an abstract Vincent van Gogh, sharing his soul through bright yet painful chromatic brilliance. • Tate Modern, London SE1 Image of the week Eternal life … Sunflowers, on loan from the UK's National Gallery, is hung at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Photograph: Lex Van Lieshout/AFP/Getty Images What we learned this week That Van Gogh's true colours were much brighter than we've ever imagined – new research shows how much his paints have faded Australia's most treasured art is going walkabout to the UK There's been a giant cock-up on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth An artist is taking a mega inflatable rubber duckie on a world tour – latest stop, Hong Kong harbour That it's 50 years since the Profumo Affair – and Christine Keeler's nude photograph is still as subversive as ever That One World Trade Centre could soon become the biggest building in the west – though it's wind, and a spire logistics committee, dependent What the future of travel could look like – nuclear trains and Jetsons-esque cars And finally … Share your art on the 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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