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Having trouble viewing this email? Turner prize, Frieze, Wilhelm Sasnal – the week in art Jonathan Jones guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 October 2011  Crazy painting ... Detail from Nude Homeless Drinker (1999) by George Condo. Photograph: George Condo Jonathan Jones's top shows to see this week Turner prize 2011 This year the north-east plays host to the most controversial and influential art prize in the world. A promising shortlist boasts George Shaw (yeah!), Hilary Lloyd, Karla Black and Martin Boyce. • At Baltic, Gateshead, from 21 October until 8 January 2012 George Condo Crazy and to be honest, really fascinating American painter, schlocky and sensational, this show promises to one of the autumn's best surprises. • At Hayward Gallery, London SE1, from 18 October until 8 January 2012 Wilhelm Sasnal A powerful and haunting German modern painter – what, another? – exhibits eerily ambiguous works. • At Whitechapel Gallery, London E1, from 14 October until 1 January 2012 Anri Sala Sound and vision resonate in this show by the Albanian film and video artist. • At Serpentine Gallery, London W2, until 20 November Kerry Tribe Ghosts and space travel are among the themes of Kerry Tribe's Dead Star Light. Obviously not the real themes – it's about memory and time and stuff like that. • At Modern Art Oxford until 20 November Up close: five artworks in detail Icon of introspection ... Auguste Rodin's The Thinker. Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty ImagesRodin, The Thinker, first cast 1902 A massive figure rests head on hand in an image of melancholy that goes back to medieval carvings such as the Queen in the Lewis Chessmen. Rodin first created his Thinker as a pensive witness to the sufferings of the damned on his swarming Gates of Hell, a vision of Dante's Inferno. Later, large versions were cast and it became the modern world's icon of introspection. • At Burrell Collection, Glasgow William Blake, Milton, c1800-1803 Blake wrote that Milton was of the devil's party but did not know it. He believed the real energy of the 17th-century republican's poem Paradise Lost lies in the rebellion of Satan. His portrait of Milton is the visionary communication of one great mind with another. • At Manchester Art Gallery Goya, Interior of a Prison, c1810-14 All the clawing anxieties that shape the mad universe of Goya's darkest paintings pervade the sepulchral depths of a prison in this sublime painting. Here is a glaring example of how Britain's art collections can be overlooked: this vision of cruelty and suffering would grace any museum in the world ... how fantastic that it glowers in County Durham. • At the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham Rembrandt, Portrait of Titus, c1658 The art of Rembrandt is as enduring as his life was fragile. Rembrandt suffered so much, including many bereavements. His son, portrayed here with such love, died before him. But in art, young Titus will live forever. • At Wallace Collection, London W1 Manet, The Execution of Maximilian, c1867-8 Manet takes traditional genres and makes them new. His idea of modern painting is to deliberately, and constantly, reveal how modern life disfigures and traduces the old nobilities, as expressed in artistic tradition. In this great, damaged work he turns to the genre of history painting to show the brutality and cynicism of modern politics. • At National Gallery, London WC2 What we learned this week Why Chloe Sevigny is encouraging us to "Never stagnate, never stop" – and perhaps to take up pole-dancing Why a giant egg, peeking eyes, pecking pigeons and a Paramount Pictures peak have come together How Adrian Searle and Sarah Lucas ended up in bed together What David Hockney, Kristen Scott Thomas and Ed Vaizey's favourite artworks are How a hermit crab made a Brâncuşi head his happy new home Image of the week Holding a mirror up to the art world ... Anish Kapoor's work at the Frieze art fair. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Your Art Weekly www.guardian.co.uk