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Venice Biennale kicks off with a royal controversy – the week in art

Jeremy Deller makes a last-minute removal of a Prince Harry banner in Venice, while visions of the cosmos turn heads in London – all in your weekly art roundup

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Sky away from the Lights by Tunç Tezel, 2010, on show at Visions of the Universe View larger picture
Universal appeal … Sky Away from the Lights by Tunç Tezel (2010), on display in a daring new exhibition at London's National Maritime Museum

Exhibition of the week: Visions of the Universe

Here is the face of beauty and truth in our time. This exhibition daringly mixes science and art, with photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans alongside the most spectacular images captured by the Hubble telescope and interplanetary robot explorers . There has been a revolution in how we picture space, and images of the planets and stars are among the wonders of this century. This is a chance to get closer to the aesthetic marvel that is the cosmos.
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, from 7 June until 15 September.

Other exhibitions this week

Gary Hume
Here is a chance to assess Hume's ultra-cool career in painting.
Tate Britain, London SW1P, from 5 June until 1 September.

Patrick Caulfield
A very British melancholy clings to Caulfield's precisely ironic art.
Tate Britain, London SW1P, from 5 June until 1 September.

RA Summer Exhibition
This eternal summer rite is still popular, perhaps because it is so eclectic – but expect no miracles.
Royal Academy, London W1J, from 10 June until 18 August.

Walk On
An exploration of the art of walking, featuring Richard Long and Janet Cardiff among many more.
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, from 1 June until 31 August.

Masterpiece of the week: Godfrey Kneller, Sir Isaac Newton , 1702

Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton, painted by Godfrey Kneller. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery

Today art and science are coming together as astronomy produces images of scintillating beauty – perhaps we are returning to the early years of modern science when culture and discovery cohabited. Sir Isaac Newton, portrayed here in his wig, lived in an age when new theories were changing ways of seeing. His insights into the nature of colour had a huge impact on how artists understood their craft.
National Portrait Gallery, London WC2H.

Image of the week

Ai Weiwei's Cleansing (Shower), from SACRED (2013). Hard cell … Ai Weiwei's Cleansing (Shower), from Sacred (2013), one of three exhibitions by the artist at the Venice Biennale. Photograph: David Levene

What we learned this week

Precisely what the inside of Ai Weiwei's cell looked like when he was imprisoned for 81 days

That a Prince Harry banner had to be removed at the last minute from Jeremy Deller's British pavilion show at Venice for fear of troops in Afghanistan being attacked

What pennies from heaven and phallic yachts have in common

How a video artist captured death

What Milla Jovovich is doing in a glass box in Venice

Why the new Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth looks like a cross between a UFO and a luxury yacht

That a new portrait of the Queen will go on first-class stamps

Why architectural education in the UK needs a total shakeup

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