Cave painting, kitties and a kicking for Francis Bacon – the week in art

From overlooked indigenous genius to the queen of dancing colour, artists’ obsessions with cats and a devastating takedown of Francis Bacon – it’s your favourite weekly art dispatch

Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation
This heartbreaking exhibition tells the story of how a 40,000-year-old civilisation was brutally and contemptuously shoved aside by British invaders and yet fought back to tell its own story in its own ancient ways.
• British Museum, London, from 23 April until 2 August

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