From Banksy to Frank Zappa – the week in art

The king of street art starts a month-long takeover of New York city and Geoffrey Farmer reimagines Zappa's life. Plus Sarah Lucas, Freud's Vienna and samurai Japan – in your art dispatch

Exhibition of the week

Elizabeth I & Her People
The vibrant world of the Tudors is a half-timbered gallery of strange and haunting portraits. British art in the 16th century was, mostly, clumsy and naive compared with that of Italy, Germany or France. But Elizabethan art often has a raw human quality that makes the people of that age come eerily to life. And there were some very special homegrown Renaissance arts – above all the portrait miniature, which rose to heights of romantic and erotic brilliance.
• National Portrait Gallery, London WC2H from 10 October until 5 January 2014

Other exhibitions this week

Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900
Klimt and Schiele star in a trip to Freud's Vienna – the alternative birthplace of modern art.
• National Gallery, London WC2N from 9 October until 12 January 2014

George Grosz
The mad world of Weimar Berlin leaps out of these fierce pictures.
• Richard Nagy, London W1S until 2 November

Chiharu Shiota
This Japanese artist has filled the gallery with an installation made of thread.
• Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne BN21 from 11 October until 5 January 2014

Geoffrey Farmer
An imaginary biography of Frank Zappa told through a kinetic mechanical installation.
• Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham NG1 from 12 October until 5 January 2014

Masterpiece of the week

The Wilton Diptych, English or French, c1395-99
Here is a portrait of a king who was to become a Shakespearean character. Actors still play Richard II on stage. The tragic monarch is portrayed at prayer in a work he owned.
• National Gallery, London WC2N

Image of the weekWhat we learned this week

That Sarah Lucas's new art show is an absolute riot of body parts

That Banksy's doing a month-long Big Apple takeover

That everyone was erotically satisfied in samurai Japan

That the original of Las Meninas, Velázquez's most famous painting, may be hiding in Dorset

That abandoned roadside Americana looks great by moonlight

How an artist has made a house in Margate slide into the ground

Why a transgender bodybuilder sculptor has taken to attacking blocks of clay

Why Oslo is now the perfect city for 24-hour arty people

And finally …

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