Moomins, board games and taxidermy – the week in art

The first UK exhibition devoted to the Moomins opens, while Djordje Ozbolt’s bizarre pastiches arrive in Bath – plus the rest of the week’s art happenings

UK’s first major Moomin exhibition set to open in London

The creatures of author Tove Jansson’s books are famous in their native Finland, and are building an international following

Poem of the week: RS Thomas on The Dressmakers by William Roberts

A taut, sharp response to a single painting reflects on its erotic and mythological resonance

Jarman winner Heather Phillipson: ‘My next work will be furious. Fascism is on my doorstep’

She is an acclaimed poet but the page is not enough. This year’s winner of the Jarman award talks about the anger and anxiety behind her giant feet and exploding dogs

Robert Rauschenberg and the subversive language of junk

With their lightbulbs, chairs and signs from the street, Rauschenberg’s sculptures reshaped art in the 20th century

Giles Waterfield obituary

Director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, exhibition organiser and historian

Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramović – five decades of groundbreaking performance art

One of the world’s most distinguished artists recalls hilarious sexual encounters, famous friends and a few husbands, but also explores the big themes in her revelatory work

Relief for Dickens museum as experts say portrait of writer’s wife is genuine

Tests show that painting by Irish artist Daniel Maclise is almost entirely hidden under later overpainting

Pulping fiction: will art benefit from trashing copies of Fifty Shades?

A new theatre project is asking for copies of EL James’s novel to build a set, as it seeks to cut up her language. I’m not sure how great an idea this is

Holbein the ’16th-century Hebdo’: artist’s woodcuts are dangerous political satire

Cambridge academic Ulinka Rublack’s new book claims the artist best known as a painter of the Tudor hierarchy had earlier used art to criticise the powerful

On my radar: Susan Greenfield’s cultural highlights

The scientist and writer on The Affair, a Swedish arts centre and a book that tackles machine intelligence

Clipped wings: the tragic true story of The Goldfinch

It was made famous by Donna Tartt’s novel, but the truth about its artist, Carel Fabritius, is stranger than fiction

Beyond the Moomins: Tove Jansson’s art gets major UK exhibition

London show will feature newly-found work from Finnish artist popularly known for her hippo-like valley-dwellers

Tirzah Garwood: portrait of the artist and her circle

Tirzah Garwood’s autobiography, finished when she had just lost her husband, Eric Ravilious, is as evocative as her work

The Art of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee review – from shared vision to slashed canvas

Picasso and Matisse, Bacon and Freud… this study of great painters’ rivalries buzzes with gossip but little real insight