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Anna Ancher: Painting Light Also showing<\/p>\n Ben Edge: Children of Albion Wayne McGregor David Blandy Future Tense Image of the week Photograph: BJ Deakin\/Copyright the artist<\/p>\n Ben Edge explained to us how his dynamic new understanding of Britain today, as seen in grand paintings such as Children of Albion (above), was triggered by seeing a procession of druids march past a KFC. Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n Last week\u2019s jewel theft at the Louvre is only the latest in a long history of heists<\/a><\/p>\n A Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired dream home has been built jutting out over Loch Long<\/a><\/p>\n David Adjaye\u2019s first major project since scandal rocked his firm is a mazey art ambush<\/a><\/p>\n Mrinalini Mukherjee\u2019s brilliant sculpture gains little from the group show around it<\/a><\/p>\n Don McCullin looked back on seven decades photographing war and tragedy<\/a><\/p>\n Donald Trump fired the federal board vetting his controversial White House ballroom<\/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 New York\u2019s Met museum is being sued for buying a Van Gogh looted by Nazis<\/a><\/p>\n The Artes Mundi 11 international exhibition is smug, stagey, up-itself nonsense<\/a><\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week<\/p>\n Saint Zeno Exorcising the Daughter of Gallienus by Filippino Lippi and Workshop, 1455-60<\/p>\n Photograph: \u00a9 The National Gallery, London<\/p>\n It is the power of Christ that commands you! Here\u2019s a medieval predecessor of The Exorcist for Halloween. This 15th-century painting shows how deeply rooted the belief in possession by demons is in the European past. The victim here looks ill and distraught, her face agonised and eyes vacant, as the little devil that lived in her is cast out. In other words it\u2019s a realistic painting of some kind of psychological or neurological crisis. In the world of medieval Christendom that might well be diagnosed as possession by a demon. Lippi and his team portray the demon as a dark creature with wings and claws, uncannily jumping out of the victim\u2019s mouth. People would carry on being plagued by such visions into the late 1600s. Today we enjoy them as entertainment. Father, could you help an old altar boy? 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
This powerful Danish painter of every day life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries echoes Vermeer in her stilled scenes.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 4 November to 8 March<\/a><\/p>\n
Wacky paintings of modern Britain with enthusiastic references to Blake and the Green Man.
Fitzrovia Chapel, London, from 6-26 November<\/a><\/p>\n
The renowned choreographer branches out into art installations that centre on the human body.
Somerset House, London, until 22 February<\/a><\/p>\n
A film inspired by The Canterbury Tales that explores the lost history of Britain\u2019s common land.
The Amelia Scott, Tunbridge Wells, until 11 January<\/a><\/p>\n
Installations by Squidsoup and Liz West immerse you in the techno age with plenty of pulsing lights.
York Art Gallery until 25 January<\/a><\/p>\n
National Gallery, London<\/a><\/p>\n