Ming bling and Apocalypse Now the week in art

The V&A launches a blockbuster exhibition of amazing artefacts from the Ming dynasty and Fiona Banner is inspired by Francis Ford Coppola. Plus Mad Men, the birth of the worlds best-loved logos and vomiting dogs all in your favourite art dispatch

See China on the eve of the first major encounters between east and west in this blockbuster epic that fills the vast new exhibition gallery of the British Museum with everything from portraits of eunuchs to a ships bell from the fleet that China sent to Africa.
British Museum, London WC1B, from 18 September, until 5 January 2015.

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