Dancefloor debauchery and a brush-wielding paparazzi

The Great Umayyad Mosque by Carl Wuttke at the British Museum’s Inspired By the East exhibition. Photograph: British Museum

Exhibition of the week

Inspired By the East: How the Islamic World Influenced Western Art
Five-hundred years of European admiration for Islamic art are revealed in a fascinating perspective on global art history.
• British Museum, London, 10 October to 26 January.

Also showing

Hogarth: Place and Progress
All the hilarious and horrific painted stories of William Hogarth are brought together in the most atmospheric museum in Britain. It should be darkly magical.
• Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, 9 October to 5 January.

Elizabeth Peyton
Fan art becomes high culture in Peyton’s stylish daubs of celebrities.
• National Portrait Gallery, London, until 5 January.

Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art
Decadence, dancing and modern art from 1920s Berlin to 1960s Nigeria.
• Barbican Art Gallery, London, until 19 January.

Rembrandt in Print
It’s arguable that Rembrandt is even greater in print than on canvas – and this will show you why.
Holburne Museum, Bath, until 5 January

Masterpiece of the week

Cardinal Bessarion with the Bessarion Reliquary (About 1472-73) by Gentile Bellini
When the Ottomans conquered Constantinople – today’s Istanbul – in 1453 and ended the long run of the Byzantine empire, last relict of classical antiquity, its intellectuals fled westward. This painting depicts one of them, John Bessarion, together with the painted reliquary containing pieces of the true cross and Christ’s clothing that he presented to a charitable foundation in his new home of Venice. Gentile Bellini, who depicts the faces venerating this holy object with such tender precision, had a love affair with the east. He was sent by the Venetian republic on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul, where he portrayed people from the sultan to a humble scribe in this same delicate style. Bellini was a human bridge between the rival civilisations of the Renaissance world.
• National Gallery, London.

Image of the week

Kara Walker: FONS AMERICANUS. The Tate Modern Hyundai Commission inside the Turbine Hall. London. Photograph by David Levene 30/9/19

Fons Americanus by Kara Walker
The US artist has unveiled a fabulous fountain surrounded by shark-infested waters as her Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern. Grotesque figures and sardonic caricatures refer to the painful history of the British empire, the transatlantic slave trade and past artworks. Read the full review