Joseph Wright, Justine Frischmann and posing for Paul Strand – the week in art

A Grand Tour of the Midlands, Top Gear’s controversial spin around the Cenotaph and Britain’s best new architects – all in your weekly art dispatch

Joseph Wright and the Lure of Italy
The great Derby artist Joseph Wright was entranced by Italy and, like many culturally aspiring 18th-century people, he made the journey there. Wright painted fireworks in Rome, sea caves on the Mediterranean shore and no fewer than 30 depictions of Mount Vesuvius erupting. This exhibition is part of The Grand Tour, a constellation of events across the region this spring that remember the cultural pilgrimage undertaken by Wright and his contemporaries and update it to modern Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery, 18 March-12 June.

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