Love through the lens, a dynasty of Japanese printmaking and Leeds’s finest – the week in art
The Yoshida family’s remarkable legacy, Alison Wilding’s subtle and surprising sculptures and this year’s rather tired effort from the Royal Academy – all in your weekly dispatch
Two girls kissing by Peggy Nolan featuring in Meditations on Love at the Photographers’ Gallery. Photograph: Peggy Nolan
Alison Wilding: By the Mark – and the Line Below the Loaf A small survey of drawings by this subtle and surprising abstract sculptor. • Heong Gallery, Cambridge, until 22 September
Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever Deadpan colour images of dilapidated industrial sites, housing and funfairs by the famed photographer of Leeds and its history. • Leeds Art Gallery, until 6 October
Image of the week
Assemble’s Maria Lisogorskaya with a model of a Ghanaian coffin. Photograph: Charlie J Ercilla/Alamy
While it’s safe to say that this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition hasn’t exactly been as well received as it might, there is one room – a mesmerising “museum of making” – curated by Turner-prize winners Assemble that is worth a visit. Read the full story.
The French painter Claude Gellée spent most of his life in Rome, feasting his eyes on its landscapes and ruins and light. Here, he immerses your senses and imagination in a green Italian idyll caressed by golden sunshine. There’s a crumbling castle on a hilltop, sailing ships on the misty sea, a bridge over the river that cuts deep through velvet woods. In the foreground, a rustic pool is the setting for a scene from ancient mythology as Narcissus gazes in rapture at his own reflection, sentenced to fall in love with himself after he spurned the nymph Echo. But here, he seems to be rejecting a whole bunch of female admirers. Echo and another lovestruck woman watch him from the woods. In the foreground, a nude is trying to attract his attention by posing at the water’s edge. Still Narcissus has eyes only for his face in the water. • National Gallery
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Two girls kissing by Peggy Nolan featuring in Meditations on Love at the Photographers’ Gallery. Photograph: Peggy Nolan 
