Frieze Art Fair, Eileen Gray, Dana Schutz: the week's art shows in pictures

With 150 international mega-galleries setting up shop, Frieze Art Fair (Regent’s Park, NW1, Thu to 20 Oct) gives a worm’s eye view of the global art world. Curiosities include Ilja Karilampi’s Jimi Hendrix-inspired installation, while Trevor Paglen’s spacecraft should shed light on secret military spacecraft hidden within “dark spots” on the map. This year Africa’s star is rising and Stevenson Gallery has a special presentation of Meschac Gaba, plus there’s a recreation of the installation that the Beninese artist Georges Adéagbo created for the Venice Biennale in 1999. For anyone who can’t face the £32 ticket, the free Frieze sculpture garden outside the architect-designed tent in Regent’s Park boasts David Shrigley’s deadpan art gags (pictured), Helen Chadwick’s bronze Piss Flowers, and work by the master of Spanish modernism, Joan Miró. Photograph: PR

Of course the goodies don’t end at the park gates. Art’s a black and white affair at Victoria Miro who has christened her new West End outpost with Japanese art legend’s Yayoi Kusama’s snowy Infinity Nets (pictured), while photographer Idris Khan turns his hand to painting with black pigment and slate dust at Miro’s North London stronghold (N1 and W1, to 9 Nov). At White Cube Bermondsey, Mark Bradford uses billboard posters and old newspapers to travel Through Darkest America in his collagist paintings (SE1, Wed to 22 Dec). And leading Chinese painters make their presence felt: Liu Xiaodong’s socially minded depictions of local London scenes are at Lisson gallery (Nw1, to 2 Nov) and Li Songsong’s explorations of Chinese history at Pace (W1, to 9 Nov). Photograph: PR

Thanks to Frieze Old Masters, there’s room for art history’s top brass too. Tate Modern’s autumn blockbuster focuses on Paul Klee’s Bauhaus years (SE1, Wed to 9 Mar), while Eykyn Maclean is showing work from Van Gogh, Gauguin and Degas (W1, to 29 Nov), and George Grosz’s sharp satiric vision of Weimer-era Berlin (pictured) is at Richard Nagy (W1, to 2 Nov). Finish the week at Ambika P3’s Sunday Art Fair (Thu to 20 Oct, NW1), which matches Frieze’s glamour with a choice selection of edgy smaller galleries, like New York tastemakers, White Columns and London’s Studio Voltaire. Photograph: PR

Eileen Gray, Dublin
This exhibition of furniture, drawings, and models representing the work of the Irish-born designer and architect Eileen Gray tells the troubled tale of E.1027, the retreat (pictured) on the Cote d’Azur which she designed. Gray lived a reclusive life until the historical importance of her work was recognised in the late 1960s and the house turned out to be a divisive homestead. Modernist architect Le Corbusier was so incensed by what he saw as its feminine qualities, when he gained access to the house he stripped off and daubed crude murals across its walls.
Irish Museum Of Modern Art, to 19 Jan
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Asco, Geoffrey Farmer, Nottingham
The collaborative group Asco was formed by four Chicano (Mexicans who grew up in the US) artists in the politically tense atmosphere of the early 1970s in the ghettos of east Los Angeles. Asco (work pictured) made big gestures and defiant protests with low-budget means and here their work No Movies documents their provocative performances. The Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer also identifies with the marginalised and unorthodox. He presents Let’s Make The Water Turn Black, a large-scale computer-controlled installation in which a tableau of sculptural puppets, fashioned from discarded movie props, dances to a soundtrack dedicated to Frank Zappa.
Nottingham Contemporary, Sat 12 Oct to 5 Jan
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Iran Do Espírito Santo, Edinburgh
The Brazilian sculptor Iran do Espírito Santo is often associated with the reductive austerity of minimalism. Yet if this is minimalism, it definitely has a sense of humour. His sculptures are often pared down to immaculately crafted rectangles and cubes (pictured), yet, no matter how abstract it gets, the work always retains a witty air of allusion to our everyday urban and domestic environments (like a perfectly sculpted lightbulb or tin can). The work can transform a gallery space into a perfectly composed and strangely serene arena.
Ingleby Gallery, Sat 12 Oct to 16 Nov
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Dana Schutz, Wakefield
The New York-based painter Dana Schutz presents her first UK solo show, which features 20 large-scale paintings with more than a dozen of them being created over the last three years. With acclaimed past works such as Self Eaters and The Autopsy Of Michael Jackson she represented the self-image obsessions of pop media figures from a perspective that was part disdainful satire and part enthralled celebration. These new works picture producers and performers as they prepare to stage their play of illusions for the general public (pictured). Schutz skillfully takes the European tradition of expressionism, with its high-drama distortions and bold scenarios of social and psychological tension, and translates it into an American culture in thrall to the theatrical façade of celebrity.
The Hepworth, Sat 12 Oct to 26 Jan
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