A magical mystery tour of Liverpool, bug-eyed cuteness and the world of vineyards – the week in art

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Exhibition of the week

Liverpool Biennial
Turner winner Elizabeth Price and Turkey’s Cevdet Erek are the stars of this mystery tour of Liverpool that’s occasionally magical.
Various venues, Liverpool, until 14 September

Also showing

Yoshitomo Nara
You like bug eyed paintings of cute yet uncanny characters? Look no further.
Hayward Gallery, London, 10 June until 31 August

Sea Inside
An investigation of our relationship with the undersea world, featuring Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marcus Coates and more.
Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, until 26 October

Liliane Lijn: Arise Alive
This pioneer of art made with light and motion shows her works from the 1950s to the present day.
Tate St Ives, until 2 November

Rudolf Stingel
Abstract paintings inspired by vineyards, leading you into worlds of matted, knotted green.
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London, from 12 June until 20 September

Image of the week

Hook, Line and Sinker, 1987, by Derek Jarman.

Derek Jarman sometimes cast spells over his doomy black paintings, into which he threw his rage at society’s treatment of queer people. Alex Needham writes about the film-maker and artist’s galvanising spirit ahead of a new exhibition of his work, and the publication of an unfinished screenplay.

What we learned

Edward Burra is British art’s great unknown

The V&A’s five-star show Design and Disability is a boundary-breaking triumph

Philip Hoare has detailed how William Blake became a queer icon

Photographer Jungjin Lee’s landscapes roar with the supremacy of nature

Performance artist Allen-Golder Carpenter is spending three days in a jail cell

Banksy’s been up to his newest tricks in Marseille

Our critic wasn’t sure what Leonardo Drew’s towers of broken urban debris amount to

Trump wants to fire the first female director of the US National Portrait Gallery

Heinz Berggruen collected treasures of modernism branded degenerate by the Nazis

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As Altadena begins rebuilding after the LA fires, a new show centres its creative history

The glorious legacy of Gwen John is finally outshining her flamboyant brother’s

The Serpentine’s first movable pavilion resembles ‘an expanding crepe-paper ornament’

Derek Jarman’s brooding ‘black’ paintings throw fresh light on his genius

Hamad Butt died too soon to win recognition as the most dangerous YBA of all

Masterpiece of the week

The Lincolnshire Ox by George Stubbs, 1790

A prodigiously huge ox is shown off by its owner in this typically surreal and haunting masterpiece by the Liverpool-born animal painter who captured the curiosity of his age. It was a real animal, and John Gibbons, the man in the painting, made money showing it off: at the time when Stubbs portrayed it, the Lincolnshire Ox was on display to paying crowds in London. Its growth was attributed to being fed purely on grass, proof of scientific improvements in 18th-century British agriculture. Stubbs, who anatomised horses, shares this scientific interest. He exhibits the ox as a dreamlike wonder, using its owner as scale and admiring its profound placidity as it munches grass. The other animal, much more alert and assertive, is thought to be Gibbons’s fighting cock.
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

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