Tracey Emin curates Crossing into Darkness at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate

Tracey Emin has curated Crossing into Darkness, an exhibition about thresholds of despair and the power of melancholy featuring Goya, Munch, Bourgeois, Baselitz and other artists. The show opens Sunday at the Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate. Other exhibitions highlighted this week include Ming Wong’s response to homoerotic paintings of Saint Sebastian at the National Gallery, London, until 5 April; Souvenir, a homage to the lost London of the late 1970s and early 1980s curated by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard at the Fitzrovia Chapel until 8 February; Story Painters, Picture Writers at St John’s College, Oxford, from 20 January to 2 February; and Solidarity Wins, a display of community-made posters and collages at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, until 30 April.

The Mauritshuis in The Hague is celebrating an image of the week: Paulus Potter’s The Bull, where research found the animal’s testicles were halved in size by the artist.

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