Exhibition of the week
Dalí/Duchamp
A fascinating trip to the most exciting era of modern art in the company of its two greatest entertainers, this exhibition showcases the best of Dalí and the genius of Duchamp.
• Royal Academy, London, 7 October to 3 January
Also showing
Arp: The Poetry of Forms
Hans, or Jean, Arp was one of the great originals of 20th-century art. His playful creations exist in their own world somewhere between surrealism and abstract art and communicate pure freedom.
• Turner Contemporary, Margate, 13 October to 14 January
Jake & Dinos Chapman
Still crazy for Goya after all these years, the Chapmans excavate new horrors and humour from the great Spanish artist’s etchings.
• BlainSouthern, London, 4 October to 11 November
Gary Hume
This unpredictable and often brilliant painter continues his explorations of the banal and the beautiful.
• Spruth Magers, London, until 23 December
Torbjørn Rødland
The strange sensual photographs of this LA-based Norwegian are surreal and fun.
Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, until 19 November
Masterpiece of the week
A Satyr Mourning Over a Nymph (1485) by Piero di Cosimo
According to Giorgio Vasari in The Lives of the Artists (1550), the eccentric Piero di Cosimo lived entirely on hardboiled eggs, was terrified of the sound of bells and loved standing in the rain. These tales about his oddities are a way of portraying him as a quirky soul, and reflect the fact that Piero was one of the first artists to express a strikingly personal vision. His paintings of monsters including half-horse centaurs and, here, a hairy-legged satyr are not just illustrations of Greek myth but have a poetic intensity that comes from deep within. Did Piero dream of becoming an animal? Did he long to escape human society and live in nature? This painting reveals his compassion and soulfulness as well as his wild imagination.
• National Gallery, London
Image of the week
One Two Three Swing! by SUPERFLEX
The Danish art collective has filled Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with a gantry of orange poles and swings that can fit three people. Their idea is that, through collective action, people can influence the Earth’s trajectory. More swings will pop up in the streets of Southwark in coming months. Read our full review.
What we learned
Frieze London art fair swings in with new work by everyone from Jeff Koons to Mary Beard.
Frieze Masters, the showcase for older art, packs a punch.
Tracey Emin is a congenial host.
Jenny Holzer brings the confusion of war to Blenheim Palace.
John Akomfrah is angry about climate change.
LA art galleries are reaching out to Spanish speakers.
Feminist art still has the power to shock.
The Chapman brothers turn their focus on suicide vests.
Tate St Ives is looking brighter …
… and the Parrtjima festival brings light to the Australian desert.
Yayoi Kusama is getting her own museum in Tokyo.
Photographing Rohingya refugees is a perilous business.
Dalí and Duchamp had a surreal bromance.
The National Theatre takes a fresh look at its posters.
Today’s artists face up to some big questions.
Get involved
Our A-Z of Art series continues – share your art with the theme X for Xenophilia. And check out the entries we selected for the theme W for women.
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