Zanele Muholi’s monumental portraits hit the Tate, the Temple of Mithras makes a new offering, and a Renaissance woman takes inspiration from a Roman feminist icon – all in your weekly dispatch

Vile, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2015, by Zanele Muholi, is from the artist’s intensely political series exploring exploitation, oppression and objectification

‘She wanted to be a model, but not many South African agencies accept LGBTI people as clients’

Ai Weiwei hits Britain, Turner goes to Glasgow, the Celts invade the British Museum – and Damien Hirst has a crack at curating with the opening of his own £25m gallery

Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse spent six years photographing every door and window of a 54-storey tower in Johannesburg, while Viviane Sassen proves herself a sculptor of light. Set beside heartbreaking portraits of LGBTI South Africans and Russians letting loose on the beach, this year’s shortlist is full of intrigue