Hockney hits a new high and Spandau Ballet capture the cold war – the week in art — theguardian.com

Gainsborough’s Family Album This artist who made a living profiling the rich painted some of his greatest portraits for himself, to record his love of his family. • National Portrait Gallery, London, until 3 February. Fernand Léger The metallic optimism of Léger’s paintings of a utopian – and feminine – future makes him one of modern art’s simplest delights. • Tate Liverpool, until 17 March. Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho: News from Nowhere A science fiction film that has partly been shot in Liverpool provokes thoughts about art and society in the tradition of William Morris’s utopian work News from Nowhere. • Tate Liverpool from 23 November.

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