Historic Hispanic masterpieces, freaky ceramics and London’s bloody rites – the week in art
A treasure trove of Spanish art is revealed, Antoni Tàpies’ raw modernism is on display and Aphra Shemza reboots the work of her grandfather – all in your weekly dispatch.
Exhibition of the week
Spain and the Hispanic World
Goya, medieval Al-Andalus and the New World all feature in this treasure chest.
Royal Academy, London, from 21 January to 10 April.
Also showing
Antoni Tàpies
Paintings as raw as the streets, scoured with blackness and hung with relics, by this Catalan modernist.
Timothy Taylor, London, until 4 March.
Redd Ekks
Freakily imaginative ceramics from countercultural California.
Arcadia Missa, London, from 26 January to 6 April.
Shemza Digital: Across Generations
The abstract art of Anwar Jalal Shemza gets a digital reboot by his granddaughter Aphra Shemza.
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, until 16 April. Read More…