Exhibition of the week
Martin Creed: Toast
Toast and peanut butter are among the elements in Creed’s latest proof of his equation that the whole world + the work = the whole world.
• Hauser and Wirth, London, from 30 November until 9 February.
Also showing
Cast Courts
This stupendous collection of casts of European sculpture and architecture reopens fully cleaned, freshly labelled and with an excellent new section that explores reproductive techniques from the Victorian electrotype to 3D printing.
• V&A, London, from 1 December.
Haroon Mirza
Sampled sounds, immersive installations and explorations of the relationship between art and music in a survey of this engaging provocateur’s work.
• Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, from 30 November until 24 February.
Turner prize
See if you agree with the judges when the winner is announced on Tuesday evening. Will it be Naeem Mohaiemen, Charlotte Prodger, Forensic Architecture or Luke Willis Thompson?
• Tate Britain, London, until 6 January.
Living with Buildings
A survey of the psychological and emotional impact of the structures that surround us.
• Wellcome Collection, London, until 3 March.
Masterpiece of the week
Theseus and the Minotaur kylix, c.440-430BC by Codrus Painter (attributed)
The brilliantly designed scene at the centre of this wide flat ancient Greek drinking cup is almost cinematic in its drama and violence. The Greek hero Theseus has just defeated the Minotaur, a part-man, part-bull monster that feasted on human flesh in its lair beneath the palace of Crete. The artist shows a powerful cropped moment from the story as the naked young hero drags the dead or dying monster out of its labyrinth, so all can see its reign of terror is finished. The muscular bodies of man and monster are a warm red against black – an example of the so-called red figure style. Around the perimeter are more scenes from the legend of Theseus. As an image of action, this classical masterpiece rivals Caravaggio and Picasso.
• British Museum, London.
Image of the week
Artefact digital sculpture installation, Chernobyl, Ukraine
The site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is basking in the glow of the world’s attention, now Ukrainian artist Valery Korshunov has created a multimedia show in the central square of its deserted city, Pripyat. We went to the artwork’s inauguration party. Read the full story.
What we learned
Jarman award winner Daria Martin is moved by the moving image
24 hours watching The Clock is a lesson in time management
London’s proposed Tulip Tower could confuse air traffic control
Orbital Reflector will take sculpture into space
Martin Jenkinson’s photographs found the heart of the action
Wall Street’s Fearless Girl is on the move
Native American art finds a stage at the Met
The V&A’s Cast Courts paradoxically remind us of Victorians’ passion for real culture
Fernand Léger found humanity in a machine age
Landseer’s Monarch of the Glen is as artistic as tartan trews
Brisbane’s Asia Pacific Triennial reflected a troubled climate
One artist wants museum labels to call out abuse
Manchester turns to the arts to ease homelessness
Gideon Mendel’s meeting with an HIV-infected man galvanised a continent
Stuttgart students build their own futures
Belgium impounded a gallery-full of Banksy art
Thieves stole a Renoir in Austria
A theatrical sculpture is slowly taking shape
William Melvin Kelley glimpsed Jamaica’s soul
Fred McDarrah captured artists unvarnished
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