This week’s art round-up highlights major new exhibitions across the UK, alongside obituaries and notable developments from the wider art world.

– Durham’s new gallery opens with Victory Over the Sun, a light-art survey featuring Olafur Eliasson and Ceal Floyer.
– Tate Modern presents a major Ana Mendieta exhibition, while Jupiter Artland shows Sgàire Wood’s sculpture.
– St Ives hosts Claire Curneen’s death-themed sculptures, and London’s Eyes in the Soil explores art engaging with the earth.
– Yayoi Kusama died aged 97; the Japanese artist was known for her infinity rooms, polka dots and ideas of infinity.
– Other news includes the death of Betye Saar, a Spanish theft of Bronze Age gold, and Gao Zhen’s imprisonment in China.
– The featured historical work is Aelbert Cuyp’s A Herdsman with Five Cows by a River, praised for its quiet, luminous naturalism.