Art Weekly  | | Rachel Whiteread and the decaying streets of Palermo – the week in art John Riddy's images of a tumultuous Sicilian city land in central London, with the Deutsche Börse Photography prize lining up nearby – all in your weekly artistic dispatch -
  One to watch … Rachel Whiteread's Detached, at the Gagosian Gallery in London. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images A truly important modern artist shows new works that continue her haunting meditation on the visible surfaces and hidden interiors of the world.
• Gagosian Gallery, London WC1X, until 25 May Other exhibitions this weekJohn Riddy
The richly decaying, tumultuous streets of Palermo in Sicily star in Riddy's new photographs.
• Frith Street Gallery, London W1F, until 1 June Deutsche Börse Photography prize 2013
Mishka Henner, Cristina de Middel, Chris Killip, and Broomberg and Chanarin are the artists shortlisted for this year's prestigious photo award.
• Photographers' Gallery, London W1F, until 30 June Stephen Willats
This seminal figure in British conceptual art has worked with Oxford communities to create art about communication and – as we said back in the day – signification.
• Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, from 27 April until 16 June  Space oddity … Untitled, from Cristina De Middel's series The Afronauts (2011). Photograph: Cristina De Middel Fiona Rae
Inventive, playful paintings that evoke the complexity as well as energy of modern life.
• Towner, Eastbourne, from 27 April until 23 June Masterpiece of the week  Transcendental meditation … Pieter Saenredam's The Interior of the Grote Kerk at Haarlem. Photograph: Alamy Pieter Saenredam – The Interior of the Grote Kerk at Haarlem (1636-37)
A church is eerily seen as an empty space, its gothic columns like abstract sculptures. This powerful artist obsessed with the shape of buildings is the Rachel Whiteread of the 17th century.
• National Gallery, London WC2N Image of the week  Self Portrait 1943 What we learned this weekWhat mashups, Zambian moon walkers and Bertolt Brecht have in common Why Modern Toss are making a F***yeux Tapestry That gov.uk – known as the "Paul Smith of websites" – has won Design of the Year That a new US TV show has totally reinvented Leonardo as a ladykiller What Man Ray looked like kicking back at home What it's like inside China's Miniskirt How the 97-year-old pioneer of Lebanese modern art Saloua Raouda Choucair managed to carve out a unique vision of her own How you can make your own cakes that look like works by Mondrian or Lichtenstein What the South Bank can learn from a bright red popup Shed And finally …Share your art on the theme of home now Follow us on Twitter now Or check out our Tumblr | | | | | |
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