A dab hand … detail from Paul Noble's Welcome to Nobson (2008-10). Click to enlarge. Photograph: Mike Bruce
Jonathan Jones's top shows to see this week
Paul Noble
Noble's invention Nobson Newtown, a graphic network of interlocking absurdities, is one of the most creative ventures in recent British drawing.
• At Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, from 10 November to 17 December 2011.
Klaus Weber
Original works including giant windscreen wipers on the main gallery window and paintings made by bees mingle with a cabinet of curiosities chosen from leading British museum collections in this Berlin artist's show.
• At Nottingham Contemporary until 8 January 2012.
Paul McCarthy
Grotesque kinetic sculptures, a public artwork and installations to awe and disgust – all convey this Los Angeles artist's raw sense of life.
• At Hauser and Wirth, London, from 16 November until 14 January 2012.
Ellen Altfest
This realist painter who lives and works in New York shows vivid closeups of the human body in her new show, The Bent Leg.
• At White Cube, Hoxton Square, London, from 14 November to 7 January 2012.
George Chinnery
The cultural history of world trade and global empire is revisited in this exhibition of an 18th-century British artist who worked in India and China.
• At Asia House, London, until 21 January 2012.
Up close: five works in detail
Monarch of the grave … detail from John Constable's Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1833). Photograph: National Gallery Collection John Constable – Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds
The monument that Constable painted in an English country park is like something out of a Poussin painting, but instead of being set in a Mediterranean arcadia this is a richly melancholic, cloud-laden, muddy British landscape.
• At National Gallery, London.
The Falling Apprentice
A moving and enigmatic portrait, carved in stone and jutting out of this gothic building's soaring walls, showing a young mason who fell to his death in its construction.
• At Gloucester Cathedral.
Nicolas Poussin – The Arcadian Shepherds
There are few more captivating and influential images of pastoral life – or death – than Poussin's scene of shepherds trying to understand a disturbing inscription. "Et in Arcadia Ego," says the tomb they have chanced on. "And I too am in Arcadia ..." This version is easily as poetic as the more renowned painting on the same theme by Poussin in the Louvre.
• At Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.
Peter Lely – Nymphs by a Fountain
In this painting from the age of Milton, young aristocratic-looking English models disport themselves naked.
• At Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.
Scott Monument
Unveiled in 1846, this great example of Victorian gothic (dedicated to novelist Sir Walter) resembles a stone space-rocket ready to blast off from the heart of Edinburgh. It's one of those monuments that traffic fumes actually improve – to clean the dark patina would be to remove some of its poetic power.
• Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh.
What we learned this week
Leonardo's drawings are best seen up close – via our excellent interactive
There's something familiar about the Taylor Wessing portrait prize winner
All about George Shaw, Turner prize 2011 nominee
The devastating power of London's Royal Artillery Memorial
A little-known Klimt could fetch £8m in auction
Image of the week
Fish takeaway … Omar Feisal's winning entry in the World Press Photo's 'daily life' category, showing at the Royal Festival Hall. Photograph: Feisal Omar/Reuters Your art weekly
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