Home is where the art is: our guide to what to look at this week
Danielle Arnaud and her small gallery in south London have launched a typically focused online show, A Way of Seeing: three rooms, three artists, starting with Oona Grimes, Katie Deith and Gerry Smith. There’s a nice range of work, from sculpture to film, but the highlight is Deith’s fantasy landscapes, painted in luminous strokes. Danielle Arnaud
One of the most curious exhibitions of the year, Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi, was forced to close at Somerset House when Covid-19 arrived. But a virtual tour has now sprung up (so to speak) in its place. Did you know that we’ve been eating psychoactive mushrooms for over 10,000 years? Somerset House
Maggie Hambling, Frank Auerbach and Chantal Joffe are among more than 100 artists to have signed up to take part in Drawn Together, an online exhibition of works on paper hosted by Unit London. The gallery’s proceeds and more than 50 per cent of all artist proceeds have been pledged to two COVID-19 response charities, Médicins Sans Frontières and World Vision. Unit London
White Cube gallery’s new online exhibition confronts the idea of time through works by artists such as Cerith Wyn Evans, Darren Almond, Christian Marclay, On Kawara, Olafur Eliasson and Agnes Martin. White Cube
The latest edition of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac’s Tea with Julia, in which the gallery’s senior global director Julia Peyton-Jones catches up with figures from the art world via Instagram Live, features Whitechapel Gallery director Iwona Blazwick. The 45-minute interview, along with others presenting the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, and the author and filmmaker Hannah Rothschild, remain available on the gallery’s YouTube channel. YouTube
Last year, Japan House in London had a smart little exhibition called Anno’s Journey: The World of Anno Mitsumasa. During the lockdown, they’ve reanimated it as a 3D virtual space. Mitsumasa, an illustrator, is a Japanese national treasure, but he’s a Europhile too, and you can find plenty of broader cross-cultural parallels in his work. For instance: don’t his sharp, sprightly papercuts have something in common with Kara Walker’s? Japan House
British photographer Mike Goldwater has released a short film featuring scenes of London during lockdown, capturing a version of the city that we may (here's hoping) never see again. Mike Goldwater
Gagosian gallery has released masses of video works onto its website. Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video is organised in chapters, each lasting two weeks, and includes pieces by artists such as Chris Burden, Taryn Simon, Richard Serra, Nam June Paik, Man Ray and Ed Ruscha. Gagosian
A new exhibition celebrating the female gaze (portraits by women of predominantly male subjects) that was scheduled to open at Victoria Miro’s London gallery this month, is now being shown on the new XR app, Vortic Collect. I See You features pictures by Celia Paul, Chantal Joffe and Alice Neel (inter alia). Victoria Miro
Art UK’s Curations tool that allows digital visitors to create their own online exhibitions of artworks from the 250,000 works by 46,000 artists on the site. You can choose from a selection of display options for your Curation, and each can be kept private or published. Ed Vaizey, Joan Bakewell, Brett Anderson and Phill Jupitus are among those to have made theirs public so far. Art UK
Photographer Gregory Crewdson has made his MFA Photography Pop Up Lecture Series at the Yale School of Art available to the public. The lectures – question and answer sessions conducted via Zoom – feature a wide range of photographers and filmmakers including William Eggleston, Spike Jonze and Tilda Swinton. To find out about upcoming lectures, visit Yale Photo’s Instagram; to watch previous lectures, visit YouTube.