Exhibition of the week All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life
The genius of Lucian Freud and his meaty friend Francis Bacon seen in a context of British “figurative” art from Sickert to Paula Rego and beyond.
• Tate Britain, London, 28 February to 27 August Murillo: The Self Portraits
This 17th-century Spanish painter’s self portraits are haunting metaphysical meditations on fame, time and death.
• National Gallery, London, 28 February to 21 May Lorna Simpson: Unanswerable
Surreal collages and dreamlike paintings that reuse old Ebony and Jet magazines to explore African American identity.
• Hauser and Wirth, London, 1 March to 28 April In the Land
Hepworth, Nicholson, Piper ... it’s the usual suspects in a survey of landscape in mid-20th-century British art.
• Whitworth, Manchester, until 28 October Jasmina Cibic: This Machine Builds Nations
The politics of modernist design explored in a trilogy of films entitled Nada, shown in a specially created installation.
• Baltic, Gateshead, until 28 May Masterpiece of the Week | 
Surreal … a detail from Lorna Simpson’s Unanswerable at Hauser and Wirth in London. Photograph: James Wang 
