Artists face the jury, the case for Hodgkin and multi-player politics – the week in art

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Exhibition of the week

Turner prize
Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa strut their stuff and compete for the now time-hallowed contemporary art award.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, from 27 September until 22 February

Also showing

Howard Hodgkin: In a Public Garden
A chance to see how Hodgkin’s work holds up eight years after his death – do the colours still blaze?
Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London, from 1 October until 8 March

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: The Delusion
Gaming becomes art in this hi-tech, politically charged installation.
Serpentine North Gallery, London, from 30 September until 18 January

Yto Barrada: Thrill, Fill and Spill
Multimedia show inspired by Barrada’s home town Tangier, which is evoked in film, painting, photography and sculpture.
South London Gallery, until 11 January

Counter Editions: 25 Years
A look through the contemporary print publisher’s back pages, featuring Tracey Emin, Peter Doig, Howard Hodgkin and many more.
Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, from 28 September until 4 January

Image of the week

The great kinetic artist Alexander Calder has never been properly celebrated in his home town of Philadelphia – until now. But our critic wondered whether a $90m subterranean labyrinth, created by Herzog & de Meuron, was really the answer. Read the full article

What we learned

The Prix Pictet photography prize captured the world engulfed by storms

America’s greatest living painter, Kerry James Marshall, arrived at the Royal Academy

Turner’s rarely seen Avon gorge paintings are now on show in Bristol

The Brown Collection’s Hoi Polloi offered up bulbous buttocks a go-go

An exhibition in Basel explored our endless fascination with all things spooky

From butterflies in Brontë country to ceramics in Stoke, there are some great art trails in the UK this autumn

Artists in Manchester are reclaiming St George’s flag with a message of inclusivity

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Work by artists from Sarah Lucas to Gwen John is celebrating the books of Jean Rhys

The 1970 killings of six US student protesters were explored in a new video work

Masterpiece of the week

Peasants Under the Trees at Dawn by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, c.1840-5

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Peasants under the Trees at Dawn, about 1840-5

This incredibly real and fresh painting of country life takes you to an age when most of the French population were peasants. Corot does not view their lives with either sentimentality or rage. This seems a genuine document of what he saw one early morning in the western Burgundy region when country folk were at work under the trees and a goose was walking by. What gives it such a matter of fact conviction is Corot’s brilliant eye for passing light. From the town silhouetted against the morning sky to the play of sunlight and shadow on rocks in the foreground, there’s a feel of fluid, ever-changing sunshine here that anticipates the impressionists.
National Gallery, London

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