Boris Johnson, the women wrestlers of Bolivia and a supermarket of neuroses – the week in art

Untitled (detail) by Theaster Gates. Photograph: Sara Pooley

Exhibition of the week

Theaster Gates
This genuinely subversive artist looks at the nature of freedom in his latest provocative confrontation of art and life.
• White Cube Bermondsey, London SE1 from 29 April until 5 July

Other exhibitions this week

Fiona Rae
One of Britain’s most interesting painters continues her odyssey through the fragments of modern life.
• Timothy Taylor Gallery, London W1, until 30 May

Looks
Juliette Bonneviot, Morag Keil and Stewart Uoo are among the participants in this exhibition about identity in the digital age.
• ICA, London SW1, until 21 June

Fiona Tan
A multi-projector film installation about museums, filmed at the magical Sir John Soane’s Museum.
• Frith Street Gallery, London W1, from 1st May until 26 June

Supersymmetry
If you like a lot of light and noise, this spectacular installation will grab you – but what’s it really saying about the science of supersymmetry?
• Brewer Street Car Park, London W1, until 31 May

Masterpiece of the week

Titian’s Portrait of a Lady (La Schiavona). Photograph: Heritage Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images

Titian – Portrait of a Lady (c 1510-12)
This movingly real portrait of an unknown Venetian woman is almost hallucinatory in its lifelike force.
• National Gallery, London WC2

Image of the week

Blue Room by John Moore, who won the L’Iris d’Or, the professional photographer of the year prize, at the 2015 Sony World Photography awards. Photograph: John Moore

What we learned this week

That the Sony world photography winners show Romanian prisons’ “intimate rooms”, grief wreaked by Ebola and the women wrestlers of Bolivia

That the new Indigenous Australia show is a fabulous five-star beast – in spite of its controversies

That Glasgow School of Art could end up looking like a cheap MFI kitchen after it’s restored

That Tate has lost two directors in as many months, as Chris Dercon departs for Berlin

What it’s like at the Counter Terror Expo – an enormous supermarket of paranoia, pumped full of grenade-proof BMWs and terrorist-resistant flowerbeds

How Ciarán Óg Arnold captured small-town boozing in Ireland

What Boris Johnson’s legacy to London will truly be

All about the skate girls of Kabul

Why art’s response to the migrant drownings should be way more angry than a giant paper boat

That the controversial Garden Bridge’s future is in jeopardy

That an artist has taken over a car park in east London to explore quantum physics – but it’s noisy, nervous and annoying

What the Vietnam war really looked like

Long live print: how the graphic-design gang keep it inky

What life was like in 19th-century China, courtesy of the adventurer extraordinaire Isabella Bird

That the V&A are showing the future of luxury goods ... and it looks like toxic waste urns and wristwatches that don’t tell the time

And finally ...

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