Exhibition of the week: Transmitting Andy Warhol
This is the first solo exhibition in northern England about the artist who defined the 1960s and is still at the leading edge of our unfolding reality.
• Tate Liverpool, Liverpool L3. from 7 November until 8 February 2015.
Other exhibitions this week
Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish civil war provoked passionate works of art including Picasso’s Guernica – this exhibition looks at the British contribution.
• Pallant House Gallery, Chichester PO19, from 8 November until 15 February 2015.
Paul McCarthy
If you were tantalised by his Paris butt plug, this weekend is your last chance to see McCarthy’s rude paintings in London.
• Hauser and Wirth, London W1S, until 1 November.
Polly Apfelbaum
An installation inspired by the baroque art and architecture of Rome.
• Frith Street Gallery, London W1F, from 7 November until 20 December.
Gretchen Bender
Radical meditations on mass-media imagery from this US artist, who also made pop videos for bands including New Order.
• Tate Liverpool, Liverpool L3, from 7 November until 8 February 2015.
Masterpiece of the week
Claude – Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648)
In Mike Leigh’s film, Mr Turner the painter gets into a debate about the genius of Claude. This is one of Turner’s favourite Claudes, and as he stipulated in his will, his own Dido Building Carthage hangs by it in the National Gallery.
Image of the week
What we learned this week
Why the Tower of London’s poppies installation are a Ukip-style memorial
About an extraordinary art-fraud case involving big-eyed children and a tyrannical husband
Why films about painters like Mr Turner always get the actual painting wrong
How much people carry on their heads all over the globe
What life is like for boys in the Bronx
That Allen Jones, best known for making art depicting women as furniture, is in fact a feminist
That Cern has released its astonishing digital archive of vintage pictures
What diva bunnies and Kate Bush superfans have in common
That the Sistine Chapel has overhauled its lighting system to preserve the artwork
… and why that shows the Vatican thinks all tourists are idiots
What Gillian Wearing’s ordinary Birmingham family statue looks like
About Marie Duval, the pioneering female Victorian cartoonist that time forgot – until now
And finally …
Look out for your new Share Your Art theme on Monday
