Georg Baselitz’s erotic prints and the world’s best photography portraits – the week in art

Plus, Peter Blake talks AI in art, a dynamic look for hospital architecture and a 450-year-old look at the birth of our galaxy – all in your weekly dispatch

Exhibition of the week

Georg Baselitz: Belle Haleine
Witty, provocative and accomplished erotica by the great German artist.
• Cristea Roberts, London, until 22 December

Also showing

New Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries
Artistic responses to the horrors of war, as collected and commissioned by this uneasy museum of the modern world.
• Imperial War Museum, London, from 10 November

Rebecca Salter and James Gillray
The current president of the Royal Academy of Arts and scabrous satirist Gillray show at the home of one of Britain’s greatest artists.
• Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury from 11 November until 10 March

Discover Liotard and the Lavergne Family Breakfast
A close look at key works by the 18th-century Swiss painter Jean-Etienne Liotard.
• National Gallery, London, from 16 November until 3 March

Taylor-Wessing Photo Portrait prize
See the winners and also-rans in this roundup of what’s happening in photographic portraiture. What sets these pics apart from your own selfies?
• National Portrait Gallery, London, until 25 February

Image of the week

From women crying out in labour pain to a family made of meringue (above), the Women in Revolt! show at Tate Britain, London, is full of wit and collective anger. It couldn’t be more timely, says Adrian Searle. Read his full review.

What we learned

A US museum postponed an Islamic art exhibition because of the Israel-Hamas war

Picasso’s paintings can still fetch a pretty penny

Seaweed can be turned into high fashion, art, even shoes

A splash of colour can bring the most abandoned houses back to life

You can travel the world without leaving Wales thanks an art extravaganza

Aged 85, Arvie Smith is ‘flexing his muscles’ and taking on New York

You can learn a lot about famous paintings by looking at their backs and frames

Sir Peter Blake is excited by the ‘magic’ possibilities of AI in art

Masterpiece of the week

The Origin of the Milky Way by Jacopo Tintoretto, c1575

The Venetian painter Tintoretto was a sceptic about Greek mythology. A deeply religious man, he often suggests these old stories of gods and lovers are a bit silly. In his version of Leda and the Swan, for instance, in which Jupiter takes the form of a swan to have a surreal sexual encounter, he depicts Leda with a collection of other animals waiting in her bedroom. But here he plays it straight, inspired and exhilarated by the myth that the Milky Way, our galaxy, is actually a trail of divine milk spilt by the goddess Juno. This cosmic origin story is played out in a flowing cascade of floating silks and silvery clouds in the deep blue sky where the gods circle one another as majestically as planets.
• National Gallery, London

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