A dance with Rothko plus Gilbert and George explore Covid chaos – the week in art

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Exhibition of the week Gilbert and George: The New Normal Pictures Psychedelic hallucinations of the London streets in lockdown that capture the sheer strangeness of our time. • White Cube online from 2 March (and later at White Cube Mason’s Yard) Also showing Group Show Calm yourself with this virtual visit to an abstract group show of mellowing, richly textured sculpture and painting by artists including Mark Handforth, Sarah Rapson and Phillip Lai. • Modern Art online until 11 April Jakob Kudsk Steensen Immersive digital landscapes on the frontier between romantic nature and video games. • Serpentine Galleries online until 31 May Rothko Chapel Anniversary Service It’s 50 years since Mark Rothko’s vision of a chapel shaped around his abstract art was fulfilled in Houston, Texas. This inter-faith anniversary event includes Sufi dancing. • Rothko Chapel livestreaming 28 February, 2-4pm The Chevalier d’Éon Explore the story of the Chevalier d’Éon, who lived both as a man and woman in 18th-century Europe in this online gallery. • British Museum online Image of the week Scène de rue à Montmartre by Vincent van Gogh has been part of the same French family’s private collection for more than a century, but is now about to go on public display for the first time. It is part of a rare series depicting the celebrated Moulin de la Galette, and was painted in 1887 during the two years the Dutch artist spent sharing an apartment in Paris with his brother Theo. It will be exhibited in London, Amsterdam and Paris before being sold by Sotheby’s in March when it is expected to fetch between €5m (£4.3m) and €8m. Read more here. What we learned Berlin’s new €47m faith centre will welcome Christians, Jews and Muslims under the same roof Insiders revealed vast staff cuts are imminent at the V&A Philip Guston’s daughter is worried his work is being misconstrued in the wake of Black Lives Matter We explored how John Keats’s death mask became a collector’s item The Scream’s “madman” inscription appears to be by Edvard Munch himself After New York, London is getting its own Highline A 17,300-year-old kangaroo is Australia’s oldest rock artwork Parklets, play streets and repurposed parking spaces let kids’ imaginations run wild Homeware design is becoming more sustainable A Lithuanian bus station is up for a top European architecture award Beat artist Harry Smith used to collect paper aeroplanes on the streets of New York The respect Salvador Dalí showed for Renaissance mathematical ratios Thirteenth-century Islamic Persia had an astrological counterculture A shot of a curious polar bear was a winner at the 2020 Frank Hurley awards Zohra Bensemra captured atmospheric images of Senegal’s most promising jockey Victoria Miro gallery’s new virtual show highlights the power of blue Photographer Ruth Maddison reimagined the years her father was spied on The Courtauld has a haul of new drawings by Cézanne, Klee and others The crumbling charms of photographer Nick Meyer’s Massachusetts hometown Junior doctor Robert Blomfield was a secret chronicler of Edinburgh life Photographer Irina Rozovsky’s trip to Prospect Park, Brooklyn was a revelation How to transport 61 National Gallery masterpieces to Australia The Great British art tour visited Glasgow, London, Bristol and Aldeburgh A century ago, the avant garde made a dramatic sweep through Georgia We remembered Gerard Hemsworth, a key figure in a new kind of British conceptualism Masterpiece of the week Marriage A-la-Mode: 6, The Lady’s Death, about 1743, by William Hogarth This is the squalid conclusion to Hogarth’s tragicomic series of modern history paintings that tell of a loveless arranged marriage in 18th-century high society. The City of London merchant who hoped to make it into the upper echelons by marrying his daughter to a decadent aristocrat removes her ring after her suicide back in his miserly home overlooking the grey Thames. Her orphaned child suffers from hereditary syphilis. A dog tugs at a sow’s ear that’s been proverbially exchanged for a silk purse. The art on the walls is Dutch and homely, reflecting the merchant’s dry worldliness. It’s a novel come to life on the gallery wall, by the first artist to capture the laughter and tears of London. • National Gallery, London Don’t forget To follow us on Twitter: @GdnArtandDesign. Sign up to the Art Weekly newsletter If you don’t already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here.

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