Rejecting Victorian Britain's grim realities, the aesthetic movement strove to create a world of perfect beauty. This extensive V&A study of its luxurious output has a certain resonance given our current dark days. Catch pieces such as Edward Burne-Jones's Laus Veneris, above, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, until 17 July Photograph: Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Katsutoshi Yuasa's large woodcut prints, some almost eight-feet high, engulf you like mirages. Each is based on an enchanting garden or dreamy bedroom in a photograph that has been digitally processed in monochrome and thus afforded an almost impressionistic haze of inflected patternings. Check out pieces like The Garden or Light Itself #1 (above) at Corn Exchange gallery, Edinburgh, by 27 May Photograph: PR
Mottled plum-coloured skies and speckled yellow dawns are built up using thin washes of paint into landscapes enchanted by memory – such as Sea Sea (2010, above). See them up close at Towner, Eastbourne, until 19 June Photograph: PR
A show focusing on the development of the National Glass Centre's frontal facade over the last 100 years, reflecting on technical, social and psychological considerations in its construction. Peer in at the centre, in Sunderland, until 10 July Photograph: PR
An exhibition commemorating the life and work of sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, who was killed in the trenches at 23. Includes the manuscript of a 1929 biographical novel that shares the exhibition's title, and posters from Ken Russell's film of the book. Get to the Henry Moore Institute by 31 July Photograph: PR
Whichever way you look at it, the buildings of this controversial architect made bold statements. Housed in the Tate's Clore gallery, which he designed, this fascinating show charts Stirling's career through drawings, notebooks and models. Head along to Tate Britain, London, from 5 April to 21 August Photograph: Canadian Centre for Architecture
Price's sculptures depict average guys you might meet on the street but rarely encounter in neo-classical bronze form. His virtuoso renderings are so psychologically nuanced, the body language so artful and well-observed, that you might find yourself reading entire life stories into the deep-set lines around a mouth or the slouch of a shoulder. Showing as part of Angell Town at Hales gallery, London, from 8 April until 14 May Photograph: PR
A series of slate roof tiles, chiselled out of a quarry in Maine, are each painted a single colour and arranged in combinations on the whitewashed walls. Their deceptive simplicity will eventually charm you into submission. See pieces including Late Afternoon (2010, above) at Ingleby gallery, Edinburgh, until 14 May Photograph: PR
