Spooky shores, folkloric visions and Ireland’s mysterious landscapes reveal a secret – the week in art

2026-02-13 - 14:35

Georges Seurat takes an eerie trip to the seaside, Yinka Shonibare puts empire in its place and Sean Scully reveals his source – all in your weekly dispatch Seurat and the Sea If you thought French 19th-century paintings of the seaside were all happy impressionism, you will be disconcerted, then absorbed by Seurat’s eerie modernist shores. Read the review. • Courtauld Gallery, London, until 17 May Continue reading...