Simon and Garfunkel, selfies and fibreglass KitKats – the week in art

Meades on Mussolini, Antony Gormley’s verdict on Brexit, and the high society grotesque of Cindy Sherman – all in your weekly art dispatch

Encounters of the surrealist kind … André Masson’s 1931 painting, Massacre. Photograph: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg/ Pietzsche Collection/Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Jonathan Jones

Exhibition of the week

Surrealist Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous
The surrealist movement is usually looked at from the point of view of the poets and artists who signed up to André Breton’s idea that dreams are revolutionary. But this exhibition sees it from the perspective of the eccentrics and enthusiasts who paid the bills for all those calls on the lobster telephone.
• Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 4 June-11 September

Also showing

MSL and Jaakko Pallasvuo
The young Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are beamed from the optimistic 1960s into our own more pessimistic age in this collaborative, multimedia art project which mixes performance, film, paintings, costumes and props to comment on time travel and the death of utopia. Wow.
• CCA, Derry - Londonderry, 4 June-23 July

Whitstable Biennale
It’s time for art by the seaside as Kent plays host to Alice Butler, Louisa Fairclough, Tessa Lynch and many more, all working on this year’s theme of “The Faraway Nearby”, exploring real and fantastic journeys.
• Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, 3 June-17 June

Edward Barber
Nostalgic images of the 1980s peace movement by this veteran photographer puts pacifism among the Imperial War Museum’s collection of combat toys.
• Imperial War Museum, London, until 4 September

Cathy Wilkes
As Britain’s EU referendum and Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy approach, this exhibition consists of four paintings of the end of time and the last days. Just to cheer us all up.

The Modern Institute, Glasgow, until 27 August

Masterpiece

Rosalba Carriera, Portrait of a Man, 1720s — Rosalba Carriera’s Portrait of a Man, 1720s. Photograph: National Gallery

Rosalba Carriera
This acute, sensitive and very memorable portrait of a pale Venetian dandy is one of a handful of works by women on view at the National Gallery. Carriera was acclaimed all over Europe in her own time, and this lovely pastel drawing shows why she deserves to be better known in ours.