Exhibition of the week Hokusai
The man who painted The Great Wave is one of the world’s most passionate and poetic artists. This promises to be a captivating encounter with his genius.
• British Museum, London, 25 May–13 August Also showing Canaletto and the Art of Venice
The entrancing cityscapes of this 18th-century painter preserve Italy’s floating urban paradise as it was 250 years ago.
• The Queen’s Gallery, London, until 12 November Wayne Thiebaud
America’s sweet tooth is wistfully celebrated by Thiebaud’s lyrical depictions of candy, cake and ice cream.
• White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, 24 May–2 July Graham Fagen
The history of slavery is uneasily remixed by Fagen’s reworking of Robert Burns’s 1792 poem The Slave’s Lament.
• Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 20 May–29 October Marc Quinn
Flayed statues eerily inhabit the haunted world of this magical museum in Quinn’s enjoyable intervention.
• Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, until 23 September Masterpiece of the week JMW Turner, Calais Pier, 1803 | 
The Great Wave (1831), from Thirty-Six Views of Mt Fuji, by Hokusai. Photograph: British Museum 
