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Exhibition of the week

Life between the islands
Alberta Whittle, Sonia Boyce and Hurvin Anderson are among the stars of what promises to be a definitive study of British Caribbean art since the 1950s.
Tate Britain, London, from December 1 to April 3

Also showing

Alvin baltrop
Truly striking photographs of gay life around the crumbling piers of the Hudson River in the 1970s and 1980s in New York City, taken by a genius voyeur who never got his due in his lifetime.
Modern Art Bury Street, London, until January 22

Salvador Dalí from Jenny Saville
A showcase of recent acquisitions from the Museum of Modern Art of Scotland, which also includes pieces by Alberta Whittle, Dorothea Tanning and Bridget Riley.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One), Edinburgh, from November 27

Travel
A look at how contemporary art helps the healing process at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, with Brian Eno among cosmetic surgeons.
Saatchi Gallery, London, until January 13

Sirens
Margate artists Sophie von Hellermann and Anne Ryan collaborate on a new installation that looks out to sea in winter.
Contemporary Turner, Margate, until spring 2023

Image of the week

Photograph: Linda Nylind / The Guardian

Mayfair Tennis Ball Exchange, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
David Shrigley’s new show, Mayfair Tennis Ball Exchange, is an evolving work of psychedelic op art involving 12,166 tennis balls – new at first but intended to be exchanged for used balls, one at a time, over the course of the exhibition, by members of the public.
Read his interview about it here

What we have learned

Fashion photographer Helmut Newton had a lasting influence on visual art

While fashion photographer Fabrice Monteiro’s best shot summons a spirit of dump

Lubaina Himid spoke to the Guardian about her youth… and explained the meaning of some of his paintings… which are on display at Tate Modern in London

Kehinde Wiley spoke with the Observer ahead of his National Gallery exhibition

The friendship of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat is staged for the London scene… and they are not the only artists whose stories make good drama

Award-winning video artist Jarman Jasmina Cibic worries about Europe

Ambitious exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary envisions a strange future

NFT is the “word of the year”

Advances in Technology Could Help Parthenon Marbles Return to Greece

Indigenous Australian photographers exhibit in New South Wales

Photographer Steve McCurry focuses on the children of the world… while Natalie Grono focuses on her own daughters… and Pia Bramley sketches the truth about the new motherhood

René Magritte was a bit of a mystery, Albrecht Dürer loved to travel and Belkis Ayón was a giant of Cuban art.

A priceless ancient Roman mosaic spent 50 years as a coffee table

Tim Sumner wants to tell a social story of Britain through paper bags

Masterpiece of the week

Still life with apples, by Cézanne
Photograph: Andrew Norman / The Fitzwilliam Museum, Image Library

Paul Cézanne: Still Life with Apples (1877-78)
These are some of the most beautiful apples ever painted. C̩zanne does not aim for sharp photographic realism like, say, Caravaggio does in his paintings of fruit, but rather paints the process of trying to see, feel and share these apples. You feel the physicality of each brush stroke as if it were a deep thumb gash in a piece of clay. You follow his scrutiny of the solid substance of apples, of their unique wonderful existence Рtheir apple tree or apple. Its colors do not float out of the apple but penetrate its being. C̩zanne looks beyond the skin of life and sees its core.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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