Art weekly: new Michelangelos discovered, and Damien Hirst’s Valentines Day show

New Michelangelos discovered, and Damien Hirst’s Valentines Day show – the week in art Michelangelo’s panther-riders gallop into Cambridge as Hirst shows his softer side. Plus, the artist who broke into Google’s data farm and one man’s LSD adventures – all in your weekly art dispatch Jonathan Jones theguardian.com, Friday 6 February 2015 09.18 EST Jump to comments (…) Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1885-86) by John Singer Sargent. Photograph: Tate Images. Click to view full image Exhibition of the week Sargent: Portrait of Artists and Friends John Singer Sargent, the strange, compelling and subversive painter of the Edwardian age, is modern in the same way that his contemporaries Henry James and Joseph Conrad are. This overdue exhibition may turn out to be unforgettable. • National Portrait Gallery, London from 12 February until 25 May. Other exhibitions this week Damien HirstCome on, you remember him. The one who did the dots??! The shark? That’s him. Now he’s doing Love. • Paul Stolper Gallery, London, from 9-21 February. History Is Now Seven artists tackle modern British history in this appetiser for the general election. • Hayward Gallery, London, from 10 February until 26 April. Henry Moore The sculptor’s studio is re-created as he becomes ever more fashionable. It’s all a load of biomorphs if you ask me. • Gagosian Gallery Davies Street, London, from 9 February until 2 April. Cotton to Gold The amazing art collections assembled by 19th-century factory owners in north-west England are showcased at this marvellously eccentric Thameside mansion. • Two Temple Place, London, until 19 April. Masterpiece of the week Water-Lilies, Setting Sun (c 1907) by Claude Monet. Photograph: National Gallery Claude Monet – Water-Lilies, Setting Sun (c 1907) The endless reflections and blurring of up and down, substance and memory in this painting are as radical, as modern, as the work of Monet’s juniors Matisse or Picasso. • National Gallery, London. Image of the week  Bacchants Riding on Panthers (1506-08) is one of two newly discovered statues, said to be the only surviving bronze sculptures by Michelangelo, that are now on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Photograph: Jack Taylor/AFP/Getty Images What we learned this week That the only Michelangelo bronzes in existence have been discovered – and they’re panther-riders. And why masterpieces are coming out of the woodwork more than ever. That an artist has snooped on Google’s data farm against its wishes. Who the pioneers of British graffiti were. What one man’s LSD adventures look like. That a new exhibition is unpicking the cliches of conflict photography – from famine babies to weeping war widows. About Lynda Benglis’s obsession with sex toys and sea creatures. About the artists that have made a magical, mesmerising maze of silent films. That a cold-war missile launcher is being installed in London. What the grungiest art of the 90s is. About the beautiful, flawed world of Marlene Dumas. That Eduardo Paolozzi’s mosaic in Tottenham Court Road station, in London, is under threat during the tube revamp. That photographs can be more powerful than art. That a politically incorrect Angolan artist is a hit in Birmingham. That Sotheby’s has broken its auction record. How the Wind of Change swept through the 60s. About the fascinating lives of identical brother farmers from Hungary. And finally … Share your landscapes with us now. Follow us on Twitter.