Stallone opens an art show in St Petersburg as Frank Gehry takes London. Plus Photoshop errors, human cheese and Banksy's last stunt in New York – in your art dispatch
Exhibition of the week
Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789-2013
This exhibition seems intellectually confused. Why does political art have to be left wing? Hitler used art. The noted art collector Charles Saatchi helped put Thatcherism in power. As for the French Revolution, with which this show starts, was that "left wing" in today's terms? The painting by Jacques-Louis David that features here portrays the death of a man who sent hundreds to the guillotine. Yet the range of art, from Jacobin imagery to the Guerrilla Girls, is full of interest.
• Tate Liverpool, Liverpool L3 from 8 November until 2 February 2014
Other exhibitions this week
Castiglione: Lost Genius
This exhibition champions a forgotten 17th-century draughtsman as an art giant.
• Queen's Gallery, London SW1A until 16 March 2014
Uproar!
A survey of the London Group, including David Bomberg, CRW Nevinson and other powerful artists of the early 20th century.
• Ben Uri Museum, London NW8 until 2 March
Edward Burtynsky
One of the most compelling photographers of our time turns his lens on water, from the dams and rice fields of China to the American southwest.
• Flowers Gallery, London W1S until 23 November
Derek Jarman
This show features intense and gothic works of art by the much missed avant garde romantic.
• Wilkinson Gallery, London E2 until 1 December
Masterpiece of the week
The portrait of young Artemidorus on his mummy case is one of the most moving faces that survives from the ancient world. It is a masterpiece of realism that comes from a time when Roman artistic values encountered the Egyptian cult of the dead. It is all the more haunting for being still affixed to his wrapped and encased body.
• British Museum, London WC1B
Image of the week
What we learned this week
That Sly Stallone is very serious about his art
All about Frank Gehry's first building in London
What happens when architects go overboard – into superyacht territory
That Banksy has inspired a project on Britain's worst graffiti – called Wanksy
The hilarity that ensues when Photoshopping goes awry
Why a group of campaigners are so desperate for Marina Abramović to retire
How armpit brie, banana-flavoured E.coli and cigarette butts are shaking up the design world
Why a rising star of photography is so influenced by Freud
That the NYPD locked down Banksy's last stunt in New York
And finally …
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