Exhibition of the week
Nam June Paik
The dada maverick who invented video art gets a well-deserved survey of his witty works.
• Tate Modern, London, 17 October to 9 February.
Also showing
George Stubbs
A superb survey of the 18th-century artist and anatomist who is Britain’s answer to Leonardo da Vinci.
• MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, until 26 January.
The Enchanted Interior
Mona Hatoum and the Victorian artist Evelyn De Morgan are among the women challenging domestic space in this exhibition that mixes 19th and 21st-century art.
• Laing Gallery, Newcastle, from 12 October to 22 February.
Julian Bell
Rollicking Bruegelesque paintings of contemporary London by a magician of colour.
• Menier Gallery, London, until 19 October.
Magnum Manifesto
Celebration of the world’s greatest photo agency with works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martin Parr and many more.
• Compton Verney, Warwickshire, from 12 October until 15 December.
Image of the week
From saw-toothed ski resorts to radical recliners, her bold creations caused a sensation. But Le Corbusier took the credit for some of her finest work. Now Charlotte Perriand is finally getting her due. Read the story.
What we learned
Norwich council houses won the RIBA Stirling prize for architecture
Italy won’t let their Leonardo go
Western art owes a great debt to Islam …
… but how successful is the exhibition?
William Wegman talked doggy art
Charlotte Perriand did some of Le Corbusier’s best work
Frank Laws seeks character in his portraits of social housing
… while Hogarth showed us London’s dark underbelly
Rube Goldberg’s cartoons skewered American society
The Blue Mountains look different in infrared
The Museum of Lost and Found Potential opened its doors
Art detectives gifted Liverpool’s Walker Gallery an original Van Dyck
Frieze London suggests painting is back in vogue
Antony Gormley wants to find giants in Brittany
Graphic artist Stanley Donwood does the impossible
Valeria Luongo peeks into the quiet world of nuns
New York’s Native American artists are being celebrated
… while street photographer Henry Chalfant recalled a time of change in the city
Actor Jeff Bridges showed us his behind-the-scenes shot of George Clooney
Brassaï’s Paris was a city of light and dark
We remembered illustrator Paul Birkbeck
Masterpiece of the week
Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio (About 1470 to 75) by Tobias and the Angel
Forget the figures, colourful examples of early Renaissance painting though they are, and don’t worry about the strange Biblical story of an angel, a boy and a fish. Instead have a good look at the dog at the angel’s feet. Its spectral delicacy and florid wavy fur bring something different and strange into the painting. Only one person can have painted it. This ghost dog is an early experiment by none other than Leonardo da Vinci. It’s got the sensual mystery of his drawings, the flowing lines with which he delineated hair and water, and his sheer imaginative audacity. Andrea del Verrocchio was Leonardo’s teacher. While other young artists have done a creditable job on the rest of this painting made in Verrocchio’s busy workshop in 15th century Florence, the dog has strolled in from another dimension: the multiverse that was Leonardo da Vinci’s mind.
• National Gallery.
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