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Millet: Life on the Land<\/strong> Also showing<\/p>\n Aubrey Levinthal<\/strong> Wael Shawky<\/strong> Tai Shani<\/strong> Andy Warhol<\/strong> Image of the weekArmed Starvation by Peter Kennard. Illustration: Peter Kennard<\/p>\n Bridging art and politics, Peter Kennard<\/a> has produced some of our most influential images of resistance and dissent since the 1970s. Gaza, his new exhibition<\/a> 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<\/a>, 9-31 August.<\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n A terrific Edinburgh art festival show combines queer kings and modern wonders<\/a><\/p>\n The Whitney\u2019s \u201cUntitled\u201d show reopens the book on American history<\/a><\/p>\n Spacecraft designers have seen the future \u2026 and it\u2019s vegetarian and polyamorous<\/a><\/p>\n With teamwork and determination, a group of Indigenous basket weavers in the Australian desert took the art world by storm<\/a><\/p>\n Pop star Kate Jackson has reinvented herself as an artist of Britain\u2019s motorways<\/a><\/p>\n The performance artist, set designer and director Robert Wilson never stopped pushing boundaries<\/a><\/p>\n Copenhagen has a second Little Mermaid statue \u2013 and it\u2019s got to go<\/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 Juergen Teller\u2019s coffee-table book about Auschwitz is shockingly bland<\/a><\/p>\n Stanley Donwood looked back on 30 years creating Radiohead\u2019s artwork<\/a><\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week<\/p>\n Landscape <\/strong>With a Watermill by Fran\u00e7ois Boucher, 1755<\/strong><\/p>\n Photograph: Vidimages\/Alamy<\/p>\n In this painting from about a century before Millet\u2019s 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\u2019t 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\u2019s 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. 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>The Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay has lent Millet\u2019s iconic Angelus for this journey to the dark side of the landscape.
National Gallery, London<\/a>, until 19 October<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Superb, subtle paintings from the streets and sofas of Philadelphia.
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh<\/a>, until 13 September<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Brilliant cinematic retellings of the history of east and west, plus the surreal marionettes and sculptures that star in them.
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh<\/a>, until 28 September<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Shani\u2019s public sculpture The Spell or the Dream celebrates 25 years of Somerset House as an art venue.
Somerset House, London<\/a>, until 14 September<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Powerful examples of Warhol\u2019s work from the Artist Rooms collection cast a cool, far-seeing eye on the modern world.
Lightbox Gallery, Woking<\/a>, until 2 November<\/p>\n
National Gallery, London<\/a><\/p>\n