Sarah Lucas, Peter Doig and Martin Parr – the week in art

Lucas will represent Britain at the 2015 Venice Biennale, plus Doig airs his earliest works and a Martin Parr pop-up restaurant opens its doors – all in your fave weekly art dispatch

Exhibition of the week

Peter Doig: Early Works
The admirable British painter revisits his early works in this disarming portrait of the artist as a young man.
• Michael Werner Gallery, London W1K, until 31 May.

Other exhibitions this week

Mirosław Bałka
Freud and dreams and a shot of the dark stuff – this is Bałka's first exhibition in London since his troubling Turbine Hall installation at Tate Modern. Here he takes inspiration from Freud's classic of modern thought, The Interpretation of Dreams.
• White Cube Mason's Yard, London SW1Y, from 21 March until 31 May and Freud Museum, London NW3, until 25 May.

Tania Kovats
The artist whose Tree is a permanent fixture at the Natural History Museum explores the power of the sea in works that include a collection of water from every ocean.
• Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh EH1, until 25 May.

Ian Kiaer
This survey of the provocative sculptor's work is called Tooth House, after a project by the modernist architect Frederick Kiesler to build a house like a tooth.
• Henry Moore Institute, Leeds LS1, until 22 June.

Discoveries: Art, Science and Exploration
This collection of wonders and works of art from Cambridge museums is a beguiling cabinet of curiosities set in one of London's richest and strangest buildings.
• Two Temple Place, London WC2R, until 27 April.

Masterpiece of the week

JMW Turner – Norham Castle, Sunrise (c1845)
This is one of the most radical and tantalising of Turner's later paintings, which seem to foresee not just impressionism but even abstract art. Its colours are hauntingly unresolved, its forms suggestive rather than finished, its light a white, blue and yellow beacon from beyond.
• Tate Britain, London SW1P.

Image of the weekWhat we learned this week

That the world's first underwater museum is full of algae-encrusted VW Beetles and classical busts covered in psychedelic coral

That Sarah Lucas – she of two fried eggs and a kebab fame – has been chosen to represent Britain at the 2015 Venice Biennale

That there's a Martin Parr-themed popup restaurant

That the public voted Falklands veteran Simon Weston to be the latest person to enter the National Portrait Gallery

That Veronese was the Ai Weiwei of his time – and the first artist to stand up for artistic freedom (after being hauled before the Inquisition, no less)

Why the new pound coin design is a nostalgia booster – and a crimebuster!

That the V&A has opened a new show of William Kent, the outlandish visionary who helped create "brand Britain"

Why bombs on skateboards, bunker-based coffee shops and rainbows made from war ribbons are being created to remember the first world war

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