Klein turns blue, Rodin dances and Turner goes home

Klein turns blue, Rodin dances and Turner goes home – the week in art

Detail from Yves Klein’s Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 84) (1960). Photograph: Courtesy of the artist

Exhibition of the week

Yves Klein
The man who patented his own colour comes to Merseyside in what should be a fascinating encounter with one of modern art’s most charismatic shamans.
• Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, 21 October-5 March.

Also showing

Rodin and Dance
The great sculptor’s fascination with dance and dancers is laid bare in an exhibition of his late works that shows him exploring a world usually associated with his contemporary Degas.
• Courtauld Gallery, London, 20 October-21 January.
JMW Turner: Adventures in Colour
The experimental genius of Turner returns to the seaside town where he found inspiration and love.
• Turner Contemporary, Margate, until 8 January.
Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael
A remarkable collaboration between a painter and a printmaker at the height of the Renaissance is explored in this exhibition, which uncovers the origins of today’s glossy art books in one of the earliest attempts to reproduce art beautifully.
• The Whitworth, Manchester, until 23 April.
Howard Hodgkin
The poetry of colour and the enigma of memory are explored in prints by one of Britain’s great painters.
• Alan Cristea Gallery, London, until 18 November.

Masterpiece of the week

Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, by Edgar Degas (1879). Photograph: Alamy

An acrobat hangs from a trapeze by her teeth in this startling image of her flying in open space beneath the russet-red dome of a Paris circus. Degas dwells on her athletic body suspended in the void, in a painting that is a homage to strength and beauty.
• National Gallery, London WC2N.

Image of the week

Man With Bird (2007). Photograph: Bharat Sikka

Featured as this week’s My best shot, Bharat Sikka’s image is of a Goan villager and his pet eagle. “He seemed to have total control over her. After I’d taken a few pictures, he said: ‘I’ll make her do anything you want’... I managed to capture man and bird perfectly in three-quarter profile – although sometimes her beak was so close to his eye that, truly, I was scared.”