Frank Bowling and Sculpture This mighty abstract painter of history and sorrow reveals his sculptural side. Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, until 3 September.
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Milton Avery The seascapes of America become sublime abstractions in this artist’s works, which are like Rothkos with people in them. Royal Academy, London, from 15 July until 16 October
Lyndsey Mendick Strange ceramics and homages to Anne Boleyn and Medusa from an artist with a joyously subversive imagination. Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, until 28 August
Space Popular: The Portal Galleries at Sir John Soane’s Museum. Photograph: @Gareth Gardner
Space Popular An exhibition of “portals” that open to take you on fictional journeys in time and space, from the Tardis to the world of JK Rowling. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, until 25 September
Cardboard Gothic Pollock’s Toy Museum brings to life the lurid imagination of Horace Walpole, builder of Strawberry Hill and inventor of the gothic novel. Strawberry Hill, London, until 14 September
Image of the week
Terri Solem, 49, from Grafton, North Dakota, in Dallas, Texas. Photograph: Anne-Marie Michel
Female truckers in the US are in it for the long haul. These are the women who have faced off sexist comments, health problems and unwanted intruders to pursue a career behind the wheel. See the full gallery here.
St Matthias at the Guillotine by Lucas Cranach the Elder(c.1512) If you thought the guillotine was invented to kill aristocrats in the French Revolution, think again. This German Renaissance woodcut depicts a beheading machine in use a lot earlier. As St Matthias, who was enrolled as an apostle to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, rests his neck on its base, a terrifying blade is ready to descend. Were such machines really in use? As with Leonardo da Vinci’s designs for secret weapons and flying machines, Cranach could be using his artistic skill to make a fantastic device look possible. He may even be promoting it as his invention. It certainly looks solid and sinister. You can almost feel the grain of the wood in this grisly example of the power and strangeness of German Renaissance art. British Museum, London.
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