Turner, dwarves and dogs in space the week in art

Tate Britain delves into the great painter's late abstract phase, as we take a tour a bizarre amusement park in China and revel in the Soviet pooches that became design heroes all in your favourite weekly art dispatch

Did JMW Turner discover abstract art in his old age? Or is that an unhistorical way of seeing this painter who loved ideas, history and myth? One thing is certain: his bow of burning gold will enflame us this autumn.
Tate Britain, London SW1P, from 10 September until 25 January 2015.

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