Hockney’s Pop Friends, Warhol’s American Republic, and Linder Attack Blackpool – The Week in Art | Art and design

Exhibition of the week

Pop revisited
David Hockney’s brilliantly innovative prints are displayed alongside other graphic masterpieces from the 1960s by Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns and others.
Christia Roberts Gallery, London, from 23 July to 20 August

also appear

Leander
From her cover design for Buzzcocks’ Orgasm Addict to modern films and textiles, the punk artist brings her vision to Blackpool.
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, from 18 July to 3 October

Helen Chadwick
Organic interactions between body and nature – such as peeing in the snow – have been at the heart of this powerful artist’s work and are shown here in a wild coastal setting in Wales.
Oriel y Parc National Park Discovery Centre, Pembrokeshire, until 10 January 2027

Gillian Ayres
Vivid and bright abstract paintings by this British artist who loved splashes of colour.
The Box, Plymouth, until 4 October

Andy Warhol
The American republic is 250 years old, and Warhol saw into its soul what no other artist did.
Wolverhampton Art Gallery until 4 October

Picture of the week

It seems that even street art is susceptible to bouts of World Cup fever. This mural by Black Country artist Dion Kitson depicts home-grown English footballers Jude Bellingham and Morgan Rogers sharing a portion of orange chips – a spiced, battered Midlands meal. Kitson says he created the image to challenge the “dark side of patriotism” he saw online, but it’s not meant to be “a political statement, it’s just about feeling good.”

What we learned

Textile artist Enid Marks was one woman’s fight against ‘William Morris’s washed-up stuff’

Madelon Vriesendorp’s exquisite works delight in the sensual skyscrapers of New York

If Ana Mendieta were still alive, she would be at the forefront of art in this century

The vision of the great painter Richard Dadd was not limited by his 43 years in the asylum

The Bayeux Tapestry made its historic journey from France to England at midnight

Del LaGrace Volcano has filmed S&M scenes, leather-clad lesbians and a drag king

Highlights of the Arles Photography Festival 2026 include dogs, food, UFOs and more

Debjani Banerjee mixes British suburbia with old Bengal

Stunning posters depicting 40 years of protest by Indigenous artists

American performance artist MPA will perform Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece” as the audience rips off her clothes

Renzo Piano’s glass cube is actually the only contender for the Stirling Prize

Masterpiece of the week

Rome: Interior of St. Peter’s Basilica, by Giovanni Paolo Panini, before 1742

By the 18th century, the days when Italy led Europe in art and science were over, and artists such as Giovanni Paolo Panini found their best market selling scenery to aristocratic tourists. Panini painted Saint Peter alone 30 times. But who wouldn’t want to take such a souvenir home? He uses a keen mastery of perspective to lead the eye deeper into this magnificent building, taking advantage of the crowds of elegant visitors to illustrate its scale. It is small among the huge arches as it admires the greatest architectural structure of the Renaissance. Beginning in the early 16th century when the ambitious Imperial Pope Julius II decided to demolish the ancient church housing the tomb of St. Peter and erect a new, classically inspired church in its place, it took a series of exhausting and frustrating architects decades to complete until Michelangelo took over. Although he was already an old man, he brought new energy and determination to this grand design, and his sense of majesty was indelibly engraved on it. Panini embodies this enormous marvel in a painting that conveys with extreme precision the sacred terror of Michelangelo.

National Gallery. London

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