Kurt Cobain, Tom Jones and Through the Keyhole – the week in art

The Nirvana frontman is resurrected, Tom Jones is accused and Loyd Grossman's finest hour in installation form – all in your favourite weekly art dispatch

Exhibition of the week: Mira Schendel

One of the towering artists of post-war Brazil, who helped to remake the language of modernism in South America after fleeing fascist Europe, Schendel skewed abstraction and took apart the stuff of language.
• Tate Modern, London SE1, from 25 September until 19 January 2014

Other exhibitions this week

Ana Mendieta
This pioneer of feminist art and body art left a powerful corpus of work when she • Hayward Gallery, London SE1, from 24 September until 15 December

Reflections from Damaged Life
An exploration of art and psychedelia.
• Raven Row, London E1, from 26 September until 15 December

Willie Doherty
The history of the Troubles mirrored in eerie images.
• City Factory Gallery, Derry BT48, from 27 September until 4 January 2014

Friedrich Kunath
Psychologist Raymond Moody and rock band The Moody Blues are surreally juxtaposed.
• Modern Art Oxford, Oxford OX1 from 21 September until 17 November

Masterpiece of the week

The Montagne Sainte-Victoire by Paul Cézanne, c1887
The light of Provence is hard and spiky in Cézanne's revolutionary modernist landscape. Sheer heat has turned the air into a vibrating crystalline entity. As if we were listening to a prelude by Wagner, the tension rises inescapably as we contemplate this still yet portentous vista. Cézanne's longings and fears are in this heatwave of genius. Is the mountain god, or death, or just a rock?
• Courtauld Gallery, London WC2

Image of the week
What we learned this week

That the last ever Frank Lloyd Wright house is about to be built in the most unlikely setting – near Bristol. And it's got a dedicated dancing area

Why a young artist has mummified Kurt Cobain

Why Jack Vettriano is the Tom Jones of art

That Through the Keyhole is back – in art form!

That Richard Serra's into black magic

That Tate has installed interactive screens so that you can become a critic and an artist

That an architecture festival's just opened where buildings are banned

And finally ...

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