Exhibition of the week Julian Opie This stylish and scientific student of perception playfully reveals how simply art can suggest the real. Lisson Gallery, London, 4 May to 12 June. Also showing The Modern Portrait Striking images of contemporary Scots by artists including John Byrne and Ken Currie. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Joan Miró The great Catalan surrealist makes an unexpected, welcome visitor to a gallery in the English countryside. Newlands House Gallery, Sussex, 1 May to 4 July. Night Fever A virtual tour of renowned nightclubs including Studio 54 and the Haçienda, plus a survey of Scottish club culture today. V&A Dundee until 9 January. David Hockney A free big-screen showing of Hockney’s animated video of the sunrise that beams a bright message of hope in dark times. Piccadilly Lights Screen, central London, at 8.21pm on 1 May. Also online. Image of the week The Despacio Sound System in New Century Hall at the Manchester international festival, one of the trailblazing club nights honoured by the V&A Dundee’s major new show celebrating a half-century of club culture. Read our feature. What we learned Poussin’s The Triumph of Silenus will hang in the main National Gallery thanks to a new study Emperor Constantine has found his missing finger Aboriginal women have taken over the Sydney Opera House Michael Stipe has shot Tilda Swinton, Beth Ditto and others for his third photography book Martin Parr chose his favourite photographs of postwar Britain Turner prize winner Tai Shani buys her flowers in Camberwell Chalkie Davies shot the holy trinity of ska in October 1979 The V&A’s Tristram Hunt wants an end to museum culture wars We got a sneak preview of Carlota Guerrero’s first photography book Urban designer Thomas Heatherwick wants ‘soulful’ cities Rachel Whiteread’s new show is a triumph of lockdown bric-a-brac The family of a late Samsung boss will donate 23,000 artworks – including pieces by Dalí, Picasso and Monet’s – to South Korean national museums Britain’s emerging architectural practices are prioritising sustainability over wealthy clients Doll’s house builder Carmen Mazarrasa is queen of the ‘miniacs’ West End art galleries are coming back to life The Great British Art Tour took a look at Lloyd George’s birthplace, motherhood on a St Leonard’s beach and a 17th century protofeminist How The Who Sell Out put the pop in pop art Photographer Travis Fox gives a bird’s eye view of America’s pace of change The late June Newton tried to steal her subjects’ souls when she shot their portrait The LensCulture Portrait awards showcased Travellers, nurses and freshwater swimmers Masterpiece of the week The Painter, 1865, by Honoré Daumier This intense, disturbing study of a human head with eyes that are gulfs of dark introspection looks like it could be a modern painting by Dubuffet or Auerbach. But it was by Honoré Daumier, an artist is still widely misunderstood as merely a gifted newspaper caricaturist who occasionally turned out a painting. It’s true Daumier was a brilliant satirist, the French Gillray, whose lethal graphic art made real political impact (he famously portrayed King Louis Philippe as a pear, a grotesquerie that stuck). But as his contemporary the poet and critic Charles Baudelaire recognised, he was also a pure artist poised powerfully between romanticism and realism, tragedy and comedy. We see that profound side here. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh Don’t forget To follow us on Twitter: @GdnArtandDesign. Sign up to the Art Weekly newsletter If you don’t already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here.