Exhibition of the week
Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude
In the age of Sigmund Freud the artists of the waning Austro-Hungarian Empire explored sexuality with daring and abandon. Egon Schiele was bravest of all. This is the greatest erotic art of the 20th century.
Courtauld Gallery, London WC2R from 23 October until 18 January.
Other exhibitions this week
Giovanni Battista Moroni
The portraits of this sensitive 16th-century north Italian artist are among the most poetic and moving ever painted.
Royal Academy, London W1J from 25 October until 25 January.
Gerhard Richter
An artist of chilling clarity who paints with total mastership yet refuses to see painting as better than photography – a giant of our time, no question.
Marion Goodman Gallery, London W1F until 20 December.
Eric Fischl
The postmodern painter shows his Art Fair Paintings – commemorate your visit to Frieze forever by buying one of these oils.
Victoria Miro Gallery, London N1 until 19 December.
Agnieszka Polska
This Polish artist investigates the lives of “lost” artists in her video Future Days.
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham NG1 until 5 January.
Masterpiece of the week
Lucas Cranach the Elder – Cupid Complaining to Venus (c 1525)
Centuries before Egon Schiele made the nude modern, this German Renaissance painter made it dirty. Cranach was a friend of Martin Luther – and a purveyor of erotic art. His slender Venus is all sex. Cupid complains that love hurts. But Cranach sets out to arouse. National Gallery, London WC2N.
Image of the week
What we learned this week
All about the scandal, crisis and nightmare at the heart of the Picasso Museum in Paris
That Steve McQueen’s new exhibition is like a punch in the gut
That this year’s Frieze art fair is full of Jimmy Nail-inspired artworks and nuclear soup
That Liverpool’s Everyman theatre has won the Stirling prize
How creepy abandoned mansions in America’s heartland are
That a man in New York has been jailed for trying to sell fake Jasper Johns art
How Rembrandt dressed his women for death
That Amal Clooney has advised Greece on the return of the Parthenon marbles to Athens
That classic flyers from the golden age of the rave were mad for it
That real British life in the 1970s was full of Spacehoppers and Enoch Powell
How Garry Winogrand gave street photography attitude
From Mystery Valley to Seldom Seen Rd, your American road trip photos
That William Morris was actually just a pious bore
Russia’s stage revolution: when theatre was a hotbed for impossibly space-age design
London’s got game: landmark sporting moments captured in black and white
That a new exhibition is seeming proof that digital art is just a relentless rush of nonsense
