Tate sounds eerie, Frieze returns and Cindy Sherman takes surreal selfies – the week in art
The Turbine Hall gets haunted by sound art and the colossal air fair opens its doors, while Sherman champions the fantastic and the grotesque – all in your weekly dispatch Tarek Atoui Sound art inspired by everyday objects and the eerie harmonies of history provides the latest artistic intervention in Tate Modern’s biggest space. Read more here. • Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, from 13 October to 11 April
Key points
- Tarek Atoui's sound art installation opens in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall from 13 October to 11 April.
- Frieze London and Frieze Masters run at Regent's Park from 14 to 18 October.
- Cindy Sherman shows new self-portraits at Hauser & Wirth in London from 13 October to 23 December.
This week in art brings a sound installation to Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, the return of the Frieze fairs in London, and new self-portraits by Cindy Sherman. Tarek Atoui's piece draws on everyday objects and what the article calls the eerie harmonies of history, and runs at Tate Modern in London from 13 October to 11 April.
Frieze London and Frieze Masters open at Regent's Park in London from 14 to 18 October, offering what the article describes as a luxurious view of the new, the old and everything in between.
Other exhibitions this week
Cindy Sherman, described as a pioneer of the fantastic and grotesque, shows new surreal self-fashionings at Hauser & Wirth in London from 13 October until 23 December. Isaac Julien's film about the 19th-century anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass comes to Perth Museum from 9 October until 11 April, in a Scottish city where Douglass delivered four speeches.
Georg Baselitz: The Heroes, described as perhaps the most powerful and unforgettable works of the German artist who died this year, is at Thaddaeus Ropac in London from 13 October until 18 December. British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers features 37 artists examining British identity.
the sweet machinery of music
— The Guardian
Painting of the week
The featured work is An Angel in Red With a Lute by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, painted around 1495 to 1499 and held at the National Gallery in London. The article says the painting is closely influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, imitating his shadowed, dreamy style, and was originally part of the same Milan altarpiece as his The Virgin of the Rocks.
The article notes that the detailed depiction of the lute's nine strings and the angel's realistic fingering echo Leonardo's interest in machinery and technology.
