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Henry VIII\u2019s Lost Dagger Also showing<\/p>\n Sufi Life and Art Paula Rego Cristina Iglesias Selves and Stand-Ins Image of the week Photograph: Image courtesy the artist. \u00a9 Saodat Ismailova<\/p>\n From ASMR prophets to Soviet hypnotists and mountaintop rituals, the Uzbek artist and film-maker Saodat Ismailova invites you in to an unforgettably strange psychic dreamspace in this first solo exhibition in the UK where there is scene after scene of breathtaking beauty, elemental ambience and disorienting anxiety. Read the review<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n A Faberg\u00e9 egg made for the mother of Russia\u2019s last tsar sold for \u00a323m<\/a><\/p>\n A new exhibition seriously captures photography\u2019s silly side<\/a><\/p>\n The Empire State Building was built by daredevils<\/a><\/p>\n Norman Foster\u2019s new New York skyscraper is obscenely large<\/a><\/p>\n French artist JR has plans for Pont Neuf<\/a><\/p>\n A long-lost Rubens went under the hammer<\/a><\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n The Grateful Dead\u2019s psychedelic artwork has long told their story<\/a><\/p>\n Ghana\u2019s Ibrahim Mahama, who draped the Barbican in purple fabric, is the first African to top the annual art power list<\/a><\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week<\/p>\n Portrait of a Man by Gerrit Dou, c.1635-40<\/p>\n Photograph: \u00a9 The National Gallery<\/p>\n He looks at you with disarming openness, as if you were relaxing together over a pipe in a Dutch tavern, chatting about the price of tulips. Long ringlets, a colourful cap and sloppy clothes mark him out as being more louche and bohemian than the sombre merchants who appear in many 17th-century Dutch portraits. Is he an artist? Surely this is suggested by the delicate but precise way he holds his pipe, as if it were a brush. The more you look, the more it replicates exactly how an artist at that time would wield a fine brush. I think that\u2019s a giveaway. Gerrit Dou, a pupil of the great self-portraitist Rembrandt, was in his early 20s when he painted this, just like the man in the painting. It is surely a self-portrait in which Dou greets us as a friend. Sign up to the Art Weekly newsletter<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get in touch<\/p>\n
A curious quest for the Tudor tyrant\u2019s lost, highly phallic dagger in the house where modern gothic began.
Strawberry Hill House, London<\/a>, until 15 February<\/p>\n
From portraits of dervishes and saints to modern abstract art with a Sufi spirit, see how this fascinating religious tradition has inspired creativity for centuries.
British Museum, London<\/a>, until 26 July<\/p>\n
This show explores a period when Rego renewed her art with dedicated drawing, partly inspired by the writings of Martin McDonagh<\/a>.
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London<\/a>, until 17 January<\/p>\n
Massive sculptures inspired by geology, which look like rugged rock formations by the sea.
Hauser & Wirth, London<\/a>, until 20 December<\/p>\n
Robert Mapplethorpe and Gillian Wearing are among the artists here who question what a \u201cself\u201d actually is.
Modern One, Edinburgh<\/a>, until 25 January<\/p>\n
The National Gallery, London<\/a><\/p>\n