New myths, Manet and an intimate guide to the Amazon – the week in art

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s powerful drawings are like a graphic novel brought to life, while rare Renoir and Gauguin are at the Royal Academy and Colombia’s Abel Rodríguez heads to Gateshead – all in your weekly dispatch

Toyin Ojih Odutola
Powerful expansive drawings and a Blake-like invented mythology make this Nigerian-American artist’s first British show, titled A Countervailing Theory, seem like a walk-through graphic novel. Includes an immersive soundscape by Peter Adjaye.
• The Curve, Barbican, London, 11-24 August.

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