What if Hitchcock directed lockdown? – the week in art

With its online Rear Window show, the White Cube is letting you ‘spy’ on works by Jeff Wall, while Cardiff celebrates Welsh national treasure Richard Burton, and Mary Quant goes back to the 60s – all in your weekly dispatch

Rear Window
Stuck indoors for lockdown? This witty online show suggests it’s a bit like being James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. In this cinema classic, Stewart plays an ace photographer trapped in his apartment with a broken leg. Like Stewart’s curious voyeur watching his neighbours, you are tempted here to “spy” on seductive artworks by Jeff Wall, Ellen Altfest, Gillian Carnegie and more. Good fun.
• White Cube online.

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