David Shrigley, Donna Tartt and Kate Moss – the week in art

Shrigley sells off his teeth as Tartt has crowds flocking to an art show. Plus, why no artist can capture the supermodel's power – all in your weekly dispatch

Exhibition of the week

Giorgio de Chirico
I am a little reluctant to recommend an exhibition at this north London gallery of modern Italian art. All too often, it presents lesser and later works by famous names, and this show is no exception, with a stress on later reworkings of old ideas by an artist who did his best paintings before the first world war. But what the hell. Giorgio de Chirico is such a titan in the story of modern art that even his slightest creations are worth seeking out. His self-cannibalism later in his career, turning his eerie mythic images into kitsch repetition, is itself strangely fascinating. De Chirico at his greatest portrays a long afternoon world of railway station loneliness where classical statues loom terrifyingly. He is bizarre and magnificent.
• Estorick Collection, London N1 until 19 April

Other exhibitions this week

Ellsworth Kelly
Release your soul for the new year with a selection of prints in pure bright colours from this American dreamer's personal collection of his work.
• Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh EH8 until 22 February

Stephen Willats
A survey of cybernetics-influenced works created in the 1960s by this pioneer of British conceptual art.
• Raven Row, London E1 from 23 January until 30 March

Patrick Caulfield
The master of melancholic ordinariness brings his louche vision to the Lakes.
• Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal LA9 from 17 January until 29 March

Soviet Silent Film Posters
The film poster, like the film, was an arena for artistic experiment in the early days of the Soviet Union. To the Winter Palace!
• GRAD, London W1W from 17 January until 29 March

Masterpiece of the week

Nicolas Poussin, A Dance to the Music of Time, ca 1634-1636
The moral sensibility of Poussin gives classical beauty profound power in what may be his greatest painting. If they stop dancing will the world end? Or does time continue when we all depart?

• Wallace Collection, London W1U

Image of the weekWhat we learned this week

Why no artist has ever got Kate Moss right

That David Shrigley is flogging his gnashers for £1,200 a pop

That William Burroughs, David Lynch and Andy Warhol are secret photographers

Who the 10 most subversive female artists in history are

That an artist has made all our superheroes – from the X-Men to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – walk like Egyptians

That crowds are flocking to a Dutch old masters show because of Donna Tartt

How to get more black men into galleries

Why the British Museum is the world's Open University

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