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LS Lowry Also showing<\/p>\n Allen Jones Multiplied Wonders Beyond Bayeux Anne Redpath Image of the week Photograph: Justin Theodore Benttinen\/Nikon Small World<\/p>\n Sheep dung, snails and mouse brains are all beautiful \u2026 if you look closely enough. This artwork could be a newly discovered planet or an abstract piece by Stanley Donwood for Radiohead\u2019s A Moon Shaped Pool, but the truth is tinier: this is the tip of a ballpoint pen, a winning entry from the Nikon Small World photography competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n Bowie, bodybuilders and a blubbering Frenchman have changed the way we see masculinity<\/a><\/p>\n Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography at Tate Modern will stop you in your tracks<\/a><\/p>\n Photos of bustling dancefloors show a changing America through the decades<\/a><\/p>\n Frieze art fair is open, and we\u2019ve identified 10 things worth seeing<\/a><\/p>\n Bondi beach in Sydney is alive with sculpture<\/a><\/p>\n Designer Kate Faulkner is stepping out of William Morris\u2019s shadow in a show that celebrates her influence on Morris & Co<\/a>\n <\/p>\n Olivier Mourgue, whose Djinn armchairs featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died<\/a>\n <\/p>\n Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer dressed up for a trip down memory lane<\/a><\/p>\n Federico Veronesi\u2019s best photograph is a devastating portrait of a grieving elephant<\/a><\/p>\n Artist Tony Albert is reappropriating racist artefacts of Aboriginalia for his show Not a Souvenir in Sydney<\/a><\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Art Weekly<\/p>\n Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n A new book documents the key players in Cameroon\u2019s vast visual art history<\/a><\/p>\n A Paris exhibition explores Ghana before and after it was ripped to shreds by colonialism<\/a><\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week<\/p>\n St Jerome and the Lion: Predella Panel by Fra Filippo Lippi and Workshop, 1455-60<\/p>\n Photograph: piemags\/Alamy<\/p>\n Filippo Lippi was the wild man of early 15th-century Florentine art, if the stories told about him in the Renaissance are anything to go by. It was even said his patron Cosimo de\u2019 Medici had to lock him in the Medici palace to stop his debauchery. There is a core of fact behind the tales, as Filippo \u2013 a friar \u2013 is known from legal records to have had children with an escaped nun, Lucrezia Buti. Their son Filippino also became an artist. But whatever his life was like, there\u2019s no lack of piety in this painting of the early Christian Jerome, a real historical figure who translated the Bible into Latin. The lion tamely lets the holy man pull a thorn from its paw, in an intricately painted mountainous landscape with a pink church. Jerome concentrates on his work, as you would if you were de-thorning a dangerous big cat. This is just a small panel from the base of an altarpiece but it packs in the emotion and humanity that makes Lippi a great artist, in spite of, or because of, his sins.<\/p>\n National Gallery, London<\/a><\/p>\n 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
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The strangest and perhaps most truthful painter of modern Britain gets a thorough looking at.
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MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 24 October to 28 February<\/a><\/p>\n
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Kinky pop art from the diehard naughty boy of 1960s British painting \u2013 the Hockney of Soho?
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Gazelli Art House, London, until 18 December<\/a><\/p>\n
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Woodcuts by Jacopo de\u2019 Barbari, Albrecht D\u00fcrer and more reveal the power of the reproduced image in the Renaissance.
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British Museum, London, until 21 March<\/a><\/p>\n
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Yinka Shonibare, Hurvin Anderson and others design tapestries in collaboration with Edinburgh\u2019s Dovecot Studios, in a somewhat opportunistically titled show.
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Guildhall Art Gallery, London, until 21 March<\/a><\/p>\n
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Landscapes on Skye with white houses and bright green fields tenderly depicted in gouache and watercolour.
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National, Edinburgh, until 6 December<\/a><\/p>\n