Exhibition of the week

Millet: Life on the Land
The Musée d’Orsay has lent Millet’s iconic Angelus for this journey to the dark side of the landscape.
National Gallery, London, until 19 October

Also showing

Aubrey Levinthal
Superb, subtle paintings from the streets and sofas of Philadelphia.
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, until 13 September

Wael Shawky
Brilliant cinematic retellings of the history of east and west, plus the surreal marionettes and sculptures that star in them.
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, until 28 September

Tai Shani
Shani’s public sculpture The Spell or the Dream celebrates 25 years of Somerset House as an art venue.
Somerset House, London, until 14 September

Andy Warhol
Powerful examples of Warhol’s work from the Artist Rooms collection cast a cool, far-seeing eye on the modern world.
Lightbox Gallery, Woking, until 2 November

Image of the weekArmed Starvation by Peter Kennard. Illustration: Peter Kennard

Bridging art and politics, Peter Kennard has produced some of our most influential images of resistance and dissent since the 1970s. Gaza, his new exhibition of graphic work, showcases multimedia prints he has made in response to the daily news reports and footage of the near-erasure of Gaza and the thousands of Palestinians killed. It runs alongside the Edinburgh festival at Palestine Museum Scotland, 9-31 August.

What we learned

A terrific Edinburgh art festival show combines queer kings and modern wonders

The Whitney’s “Untitled” show reopens the book on American history

Spacecraft designers have seen the future … and it’s vegetarian and polyamorous

With teamwork and determination, a group of Indigenous basket weavers in the Australian desert took the art world by storm

Pop star Kate Jackson has reinvented herself as an artist of Britain’s motorways

The performance artist, set designer and director Robert Wilson never stopped pushing boundaries

Copenhagen has a second Little Mermaid statue – and it’s got to go

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Stanley Donwood looked back on 30 years creating Radiohead’s artwork

Masterpiece of the week

Landscape With a Watermill by François Boucher, 1755

Photograph: Vidimages/Alamy

In this painting from about a century before Millet’s barren peasant scene The Angelus, the French countryside looks a much cheerier place. Soft focus trees form a velvety blue-green sanctuary for a mill whose dilapidation and decay strikes Boucher as delightfully picturesque. In fact, it doesn’t look like a real place at all but a dreamy idyll, inspired by Chinese landscape scenes which were hugely popular in 18th-century Europe. You can picture Boucher’s aristocratic clients delighting in this view of country life and even having a water mill like this one built as a garden folly beside their water feature. And yet, a drawing by Boucher apparently of this place suggests it may actually depict a real water mill beside the Seine.
National Gallery, London

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