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The Turner prize baffles and Ukip gets Bill Drummonded – the week in art The 2014 Turner shortlist is deliberately difficult, and Bill Drummond's been busy. Plus a power primer of the art scene, and the world's first cyborg artist – all in your favourite art dispatch Jonathan Jones theguardian.com, Friday 9 May 2014 09.12 EDT From the series Der Krieg by Otto Dix, 1924. Photograph: Trustees of the British Museum/Dacs. Click to view full image Exhibition of the week Otto Dix This great and shocking artist's furious depictions of the first world war replace this year's memory-fest with something more biting, truthful and relevant to our time. • De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40, 17 May until 27 July. Other exhibitions this week The Other Side of the Medal Intriguing propagandist medals from 1914-18 Germany show how official artists there saw the first world war. • British Museum, London WC1B, 9 May until 23 November. Grayson Perry Taste is the theme of this display of the eloquent artist's tapestries. • Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool L3, 17 May until 10 August. Nina Canell Canell uses electricity and old socks in installations that explore the enigmatic nature of reality. • Baltic, Gateshead NE8, until 20 July. Living Colour This exhibition of artists' films looks at how colour has been turned into abstract screen images by Norman McLaren, Katy Dove and others in works from the 1920s to today. • Pier Art Centre, Stromness, Orkney KW19, until 7 June. Masterpiece of the week Red Stone Dancer (c 1913) by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Photograph: Tate Britain Henri Gaudier-Brzeska – Red Stone Dancer (c 1913) This frenetic image of a totemic dancer is typical of advanced art on the eve of the first world war, when the avant garde across Europe were taking traditional western images apart in a quest for primal essence and energy. Gaudier-Brzeska embodied the international spirit of this modernism: he was born in France, worked in Britain and took the surname of his Polish girlfriend. When the war broke out, he enlisted in the French army and was killed on the western front in 1915. • Tate Britain, London SW1P. Image of the week It for Others (2013) by Duncan Campbell, one of the Turner prize shortlisted artists. Campbell's choreography brings mathematical equations to life ... What we learned this week That this year's Turner prize shortlist is deliberately dark and difficult Who the most unforgettable faces in art are And who the most powerful people in the art world are – from Jay Z and Steve Martin to Larry Gagosian and Cindy Sherman That Frieze New York is full of 'crack pie' and has its own fully functioning art hotel That the world's first cyborg artist is now Bluetooth-enabled That Bill Drummond's been busy covering up Ukip billboards That one man has reinvented the wheel to give wheelchair users a smooth ride That a new documentary reveals "starchitects" for the panto villains they are How Banksy has saved a youth club in Bristol That you can send your love tokens from relationships past to be in an exhibition What the best towers in London are And finally ... Follow us on Twitter Get scissor happy and share your collages with us now Sign up for the Guardian Today Our editors' picks for the day's top news and commentary delivered to your inbox each morning. Sign up for the daily email