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| Indigenous Australia, holograms and the Beano – the week in art | An epic collection of Indigenous paintings and objects arrives in the UK from the Museum of Australia, while radicals from Picasso to Dennis and Gnasher are breaking all the rules – all in your weekly dispatch | | Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, now showing at The Box, Plymouth. Photograph: Reprographer: Jason McCarthy/National Museum of Australia | | Exhibition of the week Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters An epic gathering of Indigenous Australian art, on tour from the National Museum of Australia, that gives a platform to the world’s most ancient living culture. • The Box, Plymouth, until 27 February Also showing Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules Artists love the Beano as much as we all do. Sarah Lucas, Phyllida Barlow and many more join curator Andy Holden to celebrate it in a show to entertain all ages. • Somerset House, London, until 6 March | | Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules. Photograph: Stephen Chung/Somerset House | The Rules of Art? John Akomfrah, Picasso, Gwen John and Rembrandt are among the artists in this radical questioning of art’s hierarchies. • National Museum, Cardiff, from 23 October to 16 April 2023 Hélène Binet Atmospheric monochrome photographs of contemporary architecture celebrating buildings by the likes of Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind. • Royal Academy, London, from 23 October to 23 January Chris Levine Light shows and holograms to illuminate the autumn at one of Britain’s most beautiful and historic stately homes. • Houghton Hall, Norfolk, until 23 December Image of the week | | East Quay in Watchet, Somerset. Photograph: Piers Taylor | On the harbour in Watchet, Somerset, where once a development of luxury flats was proposed, a group of local women have instead created the East Quay arts centre – a remarkable complex of galleries and studios, with a restaurant, classroom, geology workshop, print studio and paper mill, as well as some quirky holiday rentals, with help from a £5.3m grant from the government’s Coastal Communities Fund. What we learned Theaster Gates opened up to us about pottery, music and Obama’s library Gilbert & George chatted over breakfast London has more statues of animals than of named women Our art critic made an appearance in the Beano A robot artist will be showing its work at the Great Pyramids – if it can clear customs Syrian refugees have turned aid into art … while Philadelphia artist Lydia Ricci sculpts out of scraps Spencer Tunick shot another large-scale nude Artist John Giorno got the FBI interested in poetry In Düsseldorf, 90s fashion photography is back in vogue A new show celebrates the architectural eccentricities of Becontree estate … while Welwyn Garden City turns 100 … … and change is in the air at the Reach estate in Thamesmead Grayson Perry is taking questions Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton selected his finest shots of the ballet Magnum is having a print sale There is more Aboriginal art on show in South Australia Prolific Holocaust artist Boris Lurie never sold a painting Little Amal, a 3.5-metre puppet, has been making her way across Europe … making spectators uncomfortable as well as charming them Basil Watson has designed a statue to commemorate the Windrush generation DeLovie Kwagala led the winners of this year’s East African photography awards Dalí’s “lips” sofa was a collaborative effort The Garden of Earthly Delights has blossomed into a 21st-century artwork The National Gallery’s Raphael exhibition has opened in cinemas Street photographer Janet Delaney caught New York unawares … … and a painter at work … while Sophie Green documents British subcultures … … and Tom Wood has photographed Ireland over decades The patrons of Frieze art fair dressed for the occasion LS Lowry’s Auction is going under the hammer Enniskillen celebrated its Oscar Wilde connection with a golden work of public art Mel D Cole’s best photograph captured a moment from the BLM protests in New York Dimitris Papaioannou has brought myth, optical illusion and slapstick to Sadler’s Wells We looked inside the famous homes of five artists Photographer Mario Heller spent three weeks on trains documenting life in Kazakhstan A £120m government-backed public arts festival will include an “almost indescribable” artwork viewed with eyes closed The Observer reviewed Anicka Yi’s Turbine Hall installation at Tate Modern … as well as the Barbican’s exhibition of the work of Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi Ant-whispering photographer Stephen Gill has come up for air in his home town of Bristol A statue of Maria Callas has hit the wrong note Ai Weiwei mourned the death of documentary producer Diane Weyerman at 66 Architect Owen Luder has died, aged 93 Ghanaian-born artist Atta Kwami has died, aged 65 Masterpiece of the week | | A Bacchanal, follower of Dosso Dossi, 1525 This orgy in the countryside is a raw and racy take on a classical theme. It’s set in a mythical golden age, or at least bronze age, inspired by ancient Roman poetry, where goat-legged satyrs hang out with cupids and nymphs. Bacchus was the god of wine and his followers drunken reprobates. Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne, perhaps the most famous depiction of bacchanalian behaviour, was painted as part of a series of mythic scenes for the Duke of Ferrara in the early 1500s (and today hangs in the National Gallery). This painting also from Ferrara, is in the fierce, intense style of local painter Dosso Dossi. But it playfully takes Titian’s classical revels into more pornographic territory, with dangerous liaisons everywhere you look. • National Gallery, London Don’t forget To follow us on Twitter: @GdnArtandDesign. Sign up to the Art Weekly newsletter If you don’t already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here. 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