Rirkrit Tiravanija: A Million Rabbit Holes This renowned interactive artist turns an eye on the tense US presidential election. • Pilar Corrias, London, until 9 November
The annual Frieze art fair in London has had a redesign. You now have to walk to the farthest tent to reach the grandest galleries. My colleague Hettie Judah’s highlights include Danish artist Benedikte Bjerre’s inflated penguins and Jenkin van Zyl’s sexy go-go dancing monsters. Read more here .
A Knight of St John by Rosso Fiorentino, c 1523-24
This painting holds you with its seductive contrast of shadowy recessive blacks and browns, and the knight’s huge, floppy bright red hat. It’s the kind of daring, obviously anti-realist colour game we might associate with modern art – but Rosso Fiorentino lived long before Matisse. In fact this portrait is a perfect, almost textbook example of the mannerist style that emerged in early 16th-century Florence, when artists inspired by Michelangelo broke with the rules of realism that their Renaissance predecessors had laid down. The point of colour and shadow here is not to depict reality but to create an atmosphere, a feeling. It’s poetic and elusive – and enhanced by the fact that the unknown man is a bit more than lifesize. His identification as a knight of St John comes from the cross of this Christian military order that he wears: his intense gaze and ready sword show he’s serious about fighting for its cause. • National Gallery, London
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