Keep it simple! Art goes monochrome, plus London's impressionist past – the week in art

London’s National Gallery is colour ground zero, the excellent Susan Philipsz tells stories in Edinburgh and Marcel Broodthaers gets bizarre – all in your weekly despatch

Impressionists in London
The first modern art movement had a special connection with London, where its founders took refuge during the Franco-Prussian war. Monet would later return to paint the greatest canvases of the capital.
• Tate Britain, London, 2 November to 7 May.

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