Queer eyes in focus, sculpture hits pay dirt and Whistler’s world – the week in art

Coast of Brittany (Alone with the Tide), 1861, by James McNeill Whistler. Photograph: Wadsworth Museum of Art

Exhibition of the week

James McNeill Whistler
The brilliant American who took Victorian Britain by storm and brought avant garde ideas from Paris and Japan gets a stonking big show, Mother included.
• Tate Britain, London, from 21 May until 27 September