Artemisia in Birmingham; Jesse Jones: Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon; Dion Kitson: Rue Britannia review – reshaping art history

Ikon gallery, Birmingham
The Ikon gallery’s dramatic display of the National’s Gentileschi, coupled with Jesse Jones’s terrific installation, sees the past anew, while a Dudley-born artist makes poetry with tragicomic memorialsArtemisia glows, spotlit and close in the obliterating darkness. She looks straight back at us, head turning to meet us on arrival, direct speech from the silence of art. Her hands speak, too: one resting on a wheel pierced with horrific iron spikes (attr