Posh frocks, space oddities and Lucian Freud – the week in art

Pit yourself against Freud’s pitiless gaze, step into the 1920s wardrobe of a well-to-do woman or shoot into space, via Edinburgh – all in your weekly dispatch

Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits
This harsh observer of reality takes a long look at himself in the mirror to paint some of the most unforgiving self-portraits of modern times.
• Royal Academy, London, 27 October to 26 January.

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