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|  | | Zooming in on nature, sounding out a stone and sculpting space – the week in art | | | What science learns from photography, a painterly look at an ancient boulder and Noémie Goudal’s ‘contours of certainty’ – all in your weekly dispatch | |  |  Creating wax models of insects … Grace Edwards at work in October 1926, showing as part of Nature in Focus. Photograph: The Natural History Museum/Alamy
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| | Exhibition of the week Nature in Focus
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of its wildlife photographer of the year competition, the Natural History Museum takes a look at how photography enhances our knowledge of nature.
• Natural History Museum, London, until 19 July 2025 Also showing Home
Uneasy photographs of life and death in Ukraine under Russia’s unprovoked attack.
• Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, until 5 October Hayley Barker
A surreal depiction of the Ringing Stone, a curious boulder whose acoustic properties have been revered since prehistoric times, adds folk horror to this painterly show.
• Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, until 31 August LAIKA: Frame x Frame
The secrets of stop-go animation are revealed by this retrospective of the studio behind Coraline and Box Trolls.
• Blue Room, BFI Southbank, London, until 1 October Noémie Goudal
Photography and sculpture exploring the mysterious nature of space.
• Mostyn, Llandudno, until 7 September Image of the week | | |  | A statue of Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg's wife. Photograph: Mark Zuckerberg via Instagram
| | | Mark Zuckerberg raised eyebrows by commissioning a giant sculpture of his wife, Priscilla Chan. In a photo of the statue, posted to Instagram, the Facebook CEO and co-founder said he was “bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife”. The large sculpture was made by Daniel Arsham, a New York-based artist who has collaborated with brands including Tiffany and Dior. Chan is rendered in green and appears to be mid-stride, with a large silver cloak flowing behind her. Read the full story. What we learned From Cyprus to the Berlin Wall, we found the top spots for al fresco art in Europe NYC’s Met Museum has gone big on Japanese poetry, calligraphy and painting A survey has suggested that arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work Monet’s inspirations can be seen all over central France French customs officers thwarted the €1.3m sale of a fake Leonardo da Vinci painting Nek Chand, who handbuilt a 25-acre outsider masterpiece, never felt he was an artist Banksy artworks are popping up everywhere. These are the best (and worst) Chile’s political struggles are played out in public art and graffiti Masterpiece of the week Orpheus by Roelandt Savery, 1628 | | |  | | | | Orpheus charms the animals with music in this painting by an artist who was fascinated by nature. Painting at a time when the curiosity of the Renaissance was giving birth to modern science, Savery spent part of his career at the court of the eccentric emperor Rudolf II in Prague, where natural wonders were collected and the astonomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler employed. His most famous painting today is The Dodo – – one of the few images of this now extinct bird that may record its living appearance. There doesn’t seem to be a dodo in this idyllic, blue-tinged landscape but lions, a pelican, an elephant, swans, deer, cattle, goats and a peacock are among the many creatures drawn together by the sweet music of Orpheus. They are all at peace: a hunting dog seems to want to make friends with a stag.
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