Jamie Shovlin, Michelangelo and Jeremy Deller's bouncy Stonehenge – the week in art

Exhibition of the week: Jamie Shovlin Can you judge a book by its cover? Can a cover stand in for a book? Jamie Shovlin 's exhibition lingers over the exterior appearance of a famous series of paperbacks, the Fontana Modern Masters , which was launched in 1970. In these compact books, leading intellectuals expound the ideas of defining thinkers of the modern world such as Saussure and Marx . The books, in their original 1970s incarnation, had abstract covers with strong graphic designs that reflected their claim to reveal the heights of modern thought to a general readership. Now, Shovlin has lavished art on them. He shows prints of the Fontana covers, a collection of working tools and research materials to do with them, and creates large-scale painting replicas, methodically, accurately imitated. The results are thought-provoking. Is Shovlin suggesting that in modern culture the image has replaced the idea? That is what I took from his exhibition, anyway. The covers of the Fontana Modern Masters were only gateways to the books within – here they stand in for the books themselves, and the heritage of thought they contain. As the paperback book faces possible oblivion in the age of electronic publishing , here is a monument to what a paperback can be – a world of knowledge in your pocket, a people's university, a noble democratic dream. • Haunch of Venison , London, until 26 May Other exhibitions this week Sacrilege at Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art Jeremy Deller has created a replica of Stonehenge that also serves as a bouncy castle in one of the attractions at this festival celebrating Scotland's art city. • Glasgow Green, until 7 May George Shaw and Michael Landy The print has been a great artistic medium since the days of Durer and is still very much alive for these two artists. • Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge, until 23 September Guy Moreton Photographs on philosophical themes. • Solent Showcase , Southampton until 5 May Giuseppe Cavalli Eerie, minimalist photographs of Italy in the 20th century, with something of Morandi and di Chirico about them. • Estorick Collection , London until 17 June Masterpiece of the week Michelangelo's Cartoon in the British Museum I came across it by accident the other day and it hit me, the astonishing fact that a man named Michelangelo Buonarroti made this giant drawing with his own hand. The soft grey shades and hesitance, the enigmatic faces and heroic scale, all are his doing, and to look at this is to look at him. A "cartoon" in this case does not mean a funny picture but a full-scale drawing for a painting or tapestry . You could make holes along the lines of the drawing, pounce charcoal through them and so transfer the design to a canvas or a wall. Michelangelo gave his cartoons to pupils, letting them produce paintings from his designs. Yet this rich and mysterious work is a masterpiece as it is, that breathes, in a profoundly moving way, with the grand echo of his personality . • British Museum, London Image of the week What we learned this week How Hirst makes his most decadent artworks About a groundbreaking show of Cuban art – that two of the leading artists won't be able to attend because they're in a US penitentiary That Ron Mueck – he of giant replica baby fame – has chosen a strung-up chicken and a stick-carrying nude as his newest monumental subjects How you can share your art on the theme of science with us That an museum director in Naples has vowed to set fire to an artwork per day until he gets the full funding he's after Lastly Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Check out our Tumblr Sign up for our Art Weekly newsletter