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Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum<\/strong> Also showing<\/p>\n Toyen<\/strong> Paul McCartney<\/strong> Suzanne Song<\/strong> Andrew Geddes<\/strong> Image of the weekMichael Caine, 1965. Photograph: David Bailey<\/p>\n A new retrospective shows how the lauded photographer David Bailey shook up fashion imagery in the 1960s with his Box of Pin-Ups. His sitters, some of whom like Michael Caine were already famous, were photographed with head and shoulders tightly cropped against a harshly lit white background. \u201cThey\u2019re the hardest shots to do,\u201d he said at the time. See more images here<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n An old master painting looted by Nazis was spotted on an estate agent\u2019s website<\/a><\/p>\n Two-time Archibald prize-winning painter William Robinson died aged 89<\/a><\/p>\n There are poses and prizes in the best art this autumn<\/a><\/p>\n Catherine Leroy was fearless in the face of war<\/a><\/p>\n Apichatpong Weerasethakul\u2019s cinematic art has a primal power<\/a><\/p>\n The UK has some glorious garages<\/a><\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Photographer Martin Parr captures the magic of the mundane<\/a><\/p>\n African American life during the Great Depression was laid bare<\/a><\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week<\/p>\n The Charity of St Nicholas of Bari by Girolamo Macchietti, c.1555-60<\/strong><\/p>\n Photograph: Heritage Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n This quirky painting is typical of the narrative technique of Macchietti\u2019s master Giorgio Vasari, for whom he worked much of his career at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Vasari was not just an architect and painter but also author of The Lives of the Artists, a massive compendium of tales, true and fanciful, about artists themselves. At the Palazzo Vecchio he directed an art of anecdotal storytelling including in the Studiolo of Francesco I where Macchietti was one of the painters. Both the charm and silliness of the Vasari style are seen here. Saint Nicholas of Bari chucks gold balls into the house of an impoverished gentleman at night, while the whole family are asleep: now his daughters will get dowries and be spared having to become sex workers, according to the story. Macchietti captures the sleepiness of the whole household, but also suggests the anxiety that stops these people sleeping comfortably. They sit in their clothes as if they\u2019ve been talking and worrying until they finally fell asleep in the small hours \u2013 and that\u2019s when Saint Nicholas delivers his gifts. I\u2019m not going to mention how this saint became Santa Claus \u2013 it\u2019s still August. Sign up to the Art Weekly newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n If you don\u2019t already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Second in a sparky series of shows comparing sculptors of today to the 20th-century legend who captured the slender survival of the human spirit in spindly simplified figures.
Barbican, London, 3 September to 11 January<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/strong>A welcome look at this Czech surrealist painter who has only recently been rescued from oblivion.
Richard Saltoun Gallery, London<\/a>, from 3 September to 4 October<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Photographs of the Beatles by McCartney <\/strong>as they became world famous in the winter of 1963.
Gagosian Davies Street, London<\/a>, until 4 October<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Highly calculated, precise and impressive abstract art from New York.
White Cube Mason\u2019s Yard, London<\/a>, from 4 September to 3 October<\/p>\n
<\/strong>This Scottish artist of the Romantic era is revealed as a pioneer of etching under the influence of Rembrandt.
The National, Edinburgh<\/a>, until 28 September<\/p>\n
National Gallery, London<\/a><\/p>\n