The power of satire and pointless lifehacks – the week in art

Anti-fascist painting from Italy hits London in a week that demonstrated beyond all doubt the political clout of visual art – all in your favourite weekly art dispatch

This anti-fascist, social-realist painter from Sicily – who also illustrated Elizabeth David’s cookery classic Italian Food – is an important and radical Italian artist, the painterly equivalent of postwar film-makers such as Rossellini and De Sica.
• Estorick Collection, London N1, from 14 January until 4 April.

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