Francis Bacon gets personal, the poetry of decay and a sensory wonderland arrives – the week in art

The modern master’s portraits take the genre apart, Mire Lee explores entropy in the Turbine Hall and Haegue Yang enlivens multiple media – all in your weekly dispatch

Francis Bacon: Human Presence
The cutting eye of Britain’s most brilliant modern artist is turned on the traditional genre of the portrait. There will be blood.

• National Portrait Gallery, London, 10 October to 19 January

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