Electric Turner, a giant octopus and quantum photogravure – the week in art

Ray Harryhausen’s epic monsters, Cornelia Parker’s surreally beautiful afterimages and JMW Turner’s energy-infused observations of his contemporary life – all in your weekly dispatchTurner’s Modern World
The energy and vertigo of a new world of steam and science electrifies the luminous mists of JMW Turner’s art. This exhibition follows his observation of contemporary life from harrowing depictions of the Napoleonic wars to his elegiac painting of a ship of th