The dream disorientations of Robert Therrien's installation No Title (Table and Four Chairs) result from a deceptively simple sculptural subversion of the interior reassurances of domestic furnishing, towering above us at almost 10 feet tall.
At The MAC until 22 July Photograph: Marcus Leith
It's 50 years ago this September since Abbot Hall Art Gallery was first opened to the public. This exhibition of 50 paintings, sculptures, drawings and items of art furniture commemorates an admirable ongoing exhibition programme of rare curatorial charm. Above, Still Life (1925) by Samuel J Peploe.
At Abbot Hall Art Gallery until 9 June Photograph: PR
Ben Rivers has been making ripples in the worlds of both art and experimental film for some years now, his hand-processed 16mm portraits depicting hermit-philosophers living wilderness existences and darker futuristic imaginings about fallen societies.
At Kate MacGarry Gallery, E2, until 26 May Photograph: PR
Callum Innes has been renowned for decades for the compositional conviction of his abstract oil paintings on canvas. Yet, like many painters throughout history, he has also all along worked on paper for painterly studies, improvisations and experiments. Above, Untitled 2012.
At Ingleby Gallery from 28 April until 14 July Photograph: Hyjdla Kosaniuk
Ham House plays host to eight new artworks that gamely explore the covert politics of one of 17th-century Britain's swankiest creations. Alan Kane and Simon Periton's Eight Fculptures promises a contemporary riff on the looted antiquities and reproductions of well-known works that apparently filled the gardens in its early years.
At Ham House and Garden, Richmond upon Thames, from 28 April to 23 September Photograph: PR
Chinoiserie, the western trend for things that look Chinese, saw well-to-do 18th- and 19th-century Europeans cram their homes with porcelain, wallpaper and fabrics made in China especially for the export market. This show featuring work by 13 contemporary artists revisits Chinoiserie's cultural slippages, with politically pointed wit. Above, High Priestess Cape by Grayson Perry.
At various venues from 28 April to 7 July Photograph: PR
Photographer John Burke accompanied British forces during the invasion that was to trigger the second Anglo-Afghan war of 1878-1880. His work was largely forgotten until rediscovered and represented by Simon Norfolk.
At Crawford Art Gallery, until 30 June Photograph: PR
With over 400 works, the biggest Bauhaus show to hit Britain in four decades looks set to establish how very much more there was to the visionary German school than its popular rep for tubular steel chairs and glass box buildings. Above, Entwurf fur ein Einfamilien haus (1922) by Farkas Molnar.
At Barbican Art Gallery, EC2, until 12 August Photograph: Markus Hawlik
