Exhibition of the week
Liverpool Biennial
A "dazzle ship" that pays homage to the modernist camouflage invented during the first world war, a new composition by Michael Nyman in memory of the Hillsborough tragedy and the not-quite contemporary James McNeill Whistler are among the highlights of this summer-long art festival on Merseyside.
• Various Liverpool venues, from 5 July until 26 October.
Other exhibitions this week
Dorothea Tanning
This new look at one of the most important women in the surrealist movement should be fascinating.
• Alison Jacques Gallery, London W1, from 11 July until 9 August.
Virginia Woolf
Revisit the Bloomsbury set in this show of portraits in paint and photography of its greatest writer.
• National Portrait Gallery, London WC2 ,from 10 July until 26 October.
Gerardo Dottori
Yet another examination at this gallery of Italian futurist art in what its publicity tactfully calls "the inter-war years", more accurately known as the Mussolini era. They do a good coffee, though.
• Estorick Collection, London N1, from 9 July until 7 September.
Noémie Goudal
This French artist explores landscape, ruins and science in a variety of photographic media in her first show at a British public gallery.
• New Art Gallery, Walsall
Masterpiece of the week
William Hogarth – David Garrick as Richard III (c 1745)
If you are in Liverpool for the Biennial don't miss the superb collection of the Walker Art Gallery which includes – among other pearls from the middle ages to modern art – this tremendous portrait of Britain's first "serious" actor. Garrick was the Olivier or Brando of his day, a mesmerising presence. Hogarth captures his conviction and intensity.
• Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Image of the week
What we learned this week
How to survive a winter in Antarctica
That Tracey Emin's Bed has sold for over £2.5m
How Rolf Harris showed his dark side in art
That you can take a ride on a neverending rollercoaster
What it's like playing Etch-a-Sketch on acid
What the world's first 3D-printed shoe collection looks like
How to turn your computer into a boombox and paintbox
That the artist Chris Milk is making music videos fly into the future
What Blackpool's wildest stag and hen dos really look like
How a billboard could house the homeless
Why a death metal band are suffocating in a box in the name of art
What Yinka Shonibare, Tracey Emin, and David Starkey's favourite gallery spaces are
And the objects you think the V&A missed from their collection
That the first portrait of Ken Livingstone has just gone on show at the National Portait Gallery
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