A feminist Pirelli calendar and the rise of Donald Dump – the week in art

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Exhibition of the week

Europe 1600-1815
These new galleries at the V&A cover one of the most spectacular periods of European art, architecture, design and fashion, from the baroque to the age of Napoleon. They ought to be fabulous.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7, from 9 December.

Other exhibitions this week

Anne Hardy: Field
Hardy’s “landscapes” use everyday objects, found materials and photography to represent space and time.
Modern Art Oxford, until 10 January.

Maisons Fragiles
Louise Bourgeois, Isa Genzken and Eva Hesse are among the modern giants in this group show about architecture and vulnerability.
Hauser and Wirth, London W1, from 11 December to 6 February.

Essex Road II
A piece about Joe Orton by Uriel Orlow is among the eight artists’ films in this show that also stars Jordan Baseman, Melanie Manchot and Helen Benigson.
Tintype, London N1, from 10 December to 16 January

Transformation
A celebration of cross-dressing, all taken from the wardrobe of Peter Farrer – who was born in 1926 and has been cross-dressing since he was a teen – amid one of Britain’s finest collections of art.
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, until February 2017

Masterpiece of the week

Perseus Turning Phineas and His Followers to Stone, by Luca Giordano (1632-1705).
Perseus Turning Phineas and His Followers to Stone, by Luca Giordano (1632-1705). Photograph: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images

Luca Giordano – Perseus Turning Phineas and His Followers to Stone (early 1680s)
Flesh turns grey and bodies freeze in this eerie painting. Perseus, having slain and beheaded the gorgon Medusa, holds up her gory head as a weapon that can turn his enemies to stone. Giordano plays on energy and stillness, life and death, in this spectacular masterpiece of the baroque age.
National Gallery, London WC2

Image of the week

Pirelli calendar 2016: December – Amy Schumer, by Annie Leibovitz.
Pirelli calendar 2016: December – Amy Schumer, by Annie Leibovitz.

What we learned this week

That the 2016 Pirelli calendar will turn down the steam and turn up the culture – courtesy of Amy Schumer, Yoko Ono and Patti Smith

… and how the Pirelli calendar evolved from high-end porn to legitimate art

Donald Dump: how Trump the pottymouth triggered an artistic overload

Why a woman has gone round the globe photographing tweens – and why she gets annoyed when anyone says her pictures are sexual

The Harry Potter factory: head inside JK Rowling’s favourite room on Earth

That a stock market planetarium is coming to London – and it could have a big bang any minute

Londoners’ selfies are among the most miserable in the whole world

Anti-advertising: that 600 artists have hijacked bus stops in Paris during the UN climate change conference

That climate change activists staged tattoo protest against BP at Tate Britain

Chris Shaw: ‘Art college was full of rich kids so I used my camera to speak to normal people’

Why you want to ban Facebook right now

Anish and Antony to the rescue! Can the sculptors gentrify Afghanistan?

Tomb raiders: what treasures could lurk inside Egypt’s lost chambers?

Pollock and the polar bear: how an animal hair could solve a great art mystery

Take a high-speed tour of America’s biggest art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach

How to create a hit exhibition in seven days

That an architect has accused the RIBA of institutional racism

And finally …

The A to Z of readers’ art has reached D for Disrupt. Send us your riskiest, most rebellious artworks now

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