Shia LaBeouf, Quentin Blake and a grenade in the Turner prize – the week in art

Uproar as the first ever ‘non-artists’ win Britain’s biggest art award. Plus the Hollywood star-cum-performance artist launches a hotline and beloved illustrators come over all Christmassy – all in your weekly art dispatch

Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer
Dutch art of the 17th century has a cool allure for modern eyes. The reality of it is so absorbing, the apparent use of optical instruments so precocious. But perhaps most of all, we recognise a world comparable with our own in these scenes of middle class domesticity. This exhibition includes the Queen’s two majestic Vermeers as well as works by Gerrit Dou, Gabriël Metsu, Jan Steen and Pieter de Hooch in a silent, subtle encounter with the art of ordinariness.
• Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, until 14 February.

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