Caravaggio contested and bacon-smelling boxers – the week in art

The British Museum explores Sicily’s gorgeous heritage, east London bids farewell to an anarchic venue and the V&A strips to its smalls – all in your weekly art dispatch

Sicily: Culture and Conquest
The island of Sicily has been a prize fought over by all the cultures of the Mediterranean world since ancient times. This exhibition tells how Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans conquered and reconquered Sicily. In spite of enmity and war, their arts merged and fused to create such multicultural masterpieces as the Cappella Reale in Palermo, with its gorgeous mixture of Christian and Islamic styles. A great advert not just for Sicily but for the unexpectedly enlightened Normans.
• British Museum, London, 21 April-14 August.

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