Luminous Enlightenment, dark genius and Soviet shades – the week in art

<p>Joseph Wright of Derby’s shining innovation, Diane Arbus’s haunting portraits and an Uzbek angle on the end of the USSR – <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/19/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email">all in your weekly dispatch</a></p><p><strong>Wright of Derby: From the Shadows<br></strong>Two of the greatest paintings ever done about science – in which audiences are transfixed by lectures on an Orrery and Air-Pump – are brought together in this small but luminous show.<br>
• <a href="https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/wright-of-derby-from-the-shadows">National Gallery, London, until 10 May </a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/07/joseph-wright-of-derby-diane-arbus-saodat-ismailova-the-week-in-art">Continue reading...</a>