Lubaina Himid sews up Bath and 50 London galleries weave together – the week in art
The Turner prize-winner reconstructs the literal threads of colonial history, and a collaborative exhibition extends over 23 spaces across the capital – all in your weekly dispatch
Detail from A Fashionable Marriage, 1987, by Lubaina Himid. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
Condo London Is it a fair? Is it a biennial? No, it’s a “collaborative exhibition” with 50 galleries sharing 23 spaces across the capital. • London venues from 20 January until 17 Feb
Charlotte Keates, Margaret R Thompson and Frida Wannerberger Three very different figurative artists explore subjects from fashion to architecture. • Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, until 11 February
Image of the week
Stephen Leslie has spent the past 25 years taking candid, unposed street photos now collected in a new book, Mostly False Reports, available through his website or Instagram. He says of this photo, taken in London in 2015: “I like to think that he has no idea that the tattoo is there. That, as he has gone bald, this yin-yang symbol has slowly been revealed, like a birthmark or a sign that he is a chosen one. I could be right, maybe?” See more of the photos here.
Portrait of Piero de’ Medici (‘The Gouty’) by Bronzino, c 1550-70
This is a very fresh, intimate portrait when you consider that its subject had been dead for at least 80 years, and perhaps a whole century, when Bronzino painted it. In 16th-century Florence the Medici family established a Grand Dukedom, suppressing the city’s long history of republican politics, turning its government building into a private palace – and employing artists to glorify their family tree. Piero the Gouty was a short-lived but respected and fondly remembered early Renaissance banker, political broker and art patron. Here he is depicted by the brilliant Bronzino who also glamorised the living Medicis of his own time. He tries to get Piero right, by drawing on images done in his lifetime such as a moving marble bust by Mino da Fiesole, suggesting as it does both fragility and strength, steel and sadness. • National Gallery, London
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Detail from A Fashionable Marriage, 1987, by Lubaina Himid. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian 
