Exhibition of the week
Susan Hiller
Early and celebrated works by this artist of ghosts, memories and interstellar mysteries.
• Lisson Gallery, London, from 13 November until 9 January
Other exhibitions this week
Alexander Calder
The man who invented the mobile – one of the 20th century’s most magical sculptors.
• Tate Modern, London, from 11 November until 3 April
Dorothy Cross
A preserved shark’s eye and gilded sharkskin are among the curiosities in this nautically flavoured show.
• Frith Street Gallery, London, from 11 November until 23 December
Kara Walker
This powerful artist continues her gothic odyssey through a haunted past.
• Victoria Miro Mayfair, London, from 13 November until 16 January
Another Minimalism
Tacita Dean, Larry Bell and Ann Veronica Janssens are among the artists in this exploration of Californian minimalism’s living influence.
• Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, from 14 November until 21 February
Masterpiece of the week
Jacopo Tintoretto – Saint George and the Dragon (c 1555)
Blazing colour and drastic perspective give this painting a deep sense of drama and human peril. It is a poem of redemption.
• National Gallery, London WC2N
Image of the week
What we learned this week
That the V&A refused to accept Margaret Thatcher’s clothing for their collection …
… But now they may be backtracking
The other KKK: how the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift tried to craft a new world …
... And what Britain’s strangest youth movement really got up to
That the greatest photography show ever, The Family of Man, is back!
What London could have looked like if these wacky designs hadn’t been rejected
What drones, the women of Tahrir and a Fiat Topolino have in common
That North Korean interiors look just like Wes Anderson’s films
How a space artist saw Pluto before Nasa
What it’s like inside the biggest arms fair in the Middle East
A very British mess: the many design blunders of the new UK passport
That Japan is the true birthplace of modern art (as the new V&A gallery proves)
The last picture show: how Chantal Akerman’s suicide alters her final artwork
Branded with a yellow star: the Jewish houses marked for death by the Nazis
How Miles Aldridge made a fashion shoot – using an egg instead of a model
That magical Victorian toys are spinning back to life as GIFs
That Jeff Wall has admitted: ‘I’m haunted by the idea that my photography was all a big mistake’
The other Manhattan: inside Germany’s crumbling eastern blocks
Alfred Taubman (the former Sotheby’s chairman) puts his $500m art trove under the hammer
And finally …
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