A Renaissance pooch, pop art hammers and sublime northern landscapes – the week in art | Art and design

Exhibition of the week

Parmigianino: The vision of St Jerome
The brilliant, daring artist who inspired John Ashbery’s poem Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is participating in a Christmas exhibition with an alternative bent.
National Gallery, Londonfrom December 5 to March 9

It also shows

Jim Dine: Tools and Dreams
Prints of all-American handsaws, hammers and other household tools by this veteran pop artist.
Christea Roberts Gallery, Londonuntil January 18

Gabriel Goliath / Personal accounts
A global perspective on male violence, from Johannesburg to Edinburgh, through video and sound art.
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburghuntil February 15

Romance of Realities: The Nordic Landscape and Changing Identities
John Martin and Joan Eardley are among the artists of the northern landscape in what is sure to be a sublime show.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastleuntil April 26

Jackkai Siributr: There is no space
Radical textiles that explore themes from grief and memory to the trauma experienced by refugees.
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchesteruntil March 16

Image of the week

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun spent $6.2m (£4.88m) on TitledComedian, the conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan that featured a banana taped to a wall. To celebrate his purchase, Sun then ate the edible artwork. Read the full story to find out what it tastes like.

What we learned

Banksy in Bristol can be yours if you buy the building it’s painted on

Steve McQueen has a new look at Britain’s protest history

Barbara Hepworth had “recipes” for making sculptures

The sale of his most famous painting for $121 million tells us a lot about Magritte

Surrealist exhibitions celebrate the art of the absurd

Palestinian artists plan biennial in Gaza

André-Charles Boulle’s exquisite timepieces keep London ticking

Dorothea Rockburn’s first major UK show is built around a single, mesmerizing line

Tate’s pre-internet art and technology show could have told a darker story

An exhibition in Adelaide celebrates the revolutionary power of textiles

Masterpiece of the week

Fête in a Wood by Nicolas Lancre circa 1722

People celebrate and celebrate, eat, drink and chat under the soft green-blue trees at this vibrant festival. But does it have anything to do with reality? Lancret was influenced by Antoine Watteau, who painted exquisitely unreal pastoral scenes – but Watteau’s rural idylls, which, like this canvas, can be seen in London’s Wallace Collection, are far more ethereal and poetic than Lancret’s robust carnivalesque. Watteau, who died young in 1721. shortly before Lancre painted this, created a perfumed paradise of amorous and dreamy woods. Lancret brings this vision down to earth with a light thump: from one point of view, it’s just not that good. His lines are harsher, his people tougher. Yet he also does something new here, as he combines a refined courtly look with what seems like a glimpse of a country carnival, with people who are not aristocrats but bourgeois and plebeians. It’s like seeing a fairy tale dramatized as a slice of modern life.
Wallace Collection, London

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