Banksy's fast food activism and a bigger, better Frieze – the week in art

The street artist takes a shine to Ronald McDonald and Frieze gets playful. Plus, the V&A takes a breath of fresh air with classic Chinese landscape paintings – in your art dispatch

Exhibition of the week

Masterpieces of Chinese Painting, 700-1900
This exhibition at the V&A is a revelatory encounter with great art. Chinese artists were painting sensitive and sublime landscapes when Europeans were festering in the dark ages. See this – it's moving and hypnotic.
• V&A, London SW7 from 26 October until 19 January 2014

Other exhibitions this week

Turner prize
Derry hosts the world's most sensational art prize.
• Buildings 80-81, Derry/Londonderry BT47 from 23 October until 5 January 2014

Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris
This great French caricaturist and experimental painter portrays a world of cruelty and suffering. It's Les Misérables without the awful songs.
• Royal Academy of Arts, London W1J from 26 October until 26 January 2014

Zhang Enli: Space Painting
Head to the ICA for a chance to compare painting from contemporary China with the masterpieces on view at the V&A.
• ICA, London SW1 until 22 December

The Social: Encountering Photography
This festival of photography in northeast England includes commissions by Simon Roberts, Craig Ames and John Kippin.
• Various venues in Durham and Sunderland, until 16 November

Masterpiece of the week

Saint Jerome in a Rocky Landscape
This dreamlike landscape of blue rocks is a fantasy the mind can wander in; a miniature world not unlike those created by Chinese art.
• National Gallery, London WC2N

Image of the weekWhat we learned this week

That Banksy's served up a shoeshine for corporate clown Ronald McDonald

Why this year's Frieze is like a giant playground

How you can bag a Brueghel at Frieze Masters

Why Picasso's grandson is raffling off one of his grandfather's works for a mere £85

What beachgoers look like on the Bronx Riviera, known as "hood beach"

What Spitalfields nippers looked like in 1901

That it's the end for millionaire mega-basements

That North Korean propaganda artists have painted a rose-tinted China

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