Turner gets a soulmate and Rembrandt gets an update – the week in art

Turner takes sides with Sean Scully, Rembrandt triumphs over Hirst and Picasso, and three great American photographers size up Scotland

Sean Scully: Sea Star
JMW Turner’s beachscape The Evening Star reveals itself as an abstract masterpiece by being seen with Scully’s abstract art.
• National Gallery, London, 13 April to 11 August.

Mandela’s sketch of his Robben Island cell will be sold at auction

… and her Serpentine show is a furious, uneasy delight

Rembrandt’s resplendence upstages Bacon, Warhol and Koons at the Gagosian

Wildly coloured glass artworks have sprung up in Kew Gardens

Harry Clarke’s bizarre visions fused the past with an alien future

Sriwhana Spong is taking on colonialism with Gamelan and GoPros

Queen Victoria’s coronet is reducing V&A visitors to tears

Leyton’s metalheads are laying on family fun

Edvard Munch is a five-star treat

New York has a new Shed to play in

… but the Hudson Yards development surrounding it is a horror

Meanwhile, the city could get a Lowline to go with its High Line

We took a peek at Madelon Vriesendorp’s flat

Juergen Teller is raising awareness of children’s terminal care

Three female performance artists have won the inaugural Katthy Cavaliere fellowships

… Let’s hope this new Australian award continues with vision

Galleries are talking again to art patron Anthony d’Offay

Photographer Brian Rose found Atlantic City was a ghost town

Damien Hirst has created a demon

A rediscovered Malevich is no such thing

Andres Amador is letting his work be washed away

Tate bought a Yinka Shonibare

Rembrandt has become a film star

And we remembered Dan Robbins, the inventor of painting by numbers

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