Five best London shows ...and around the country

Pont Cartoon Museum

Work by Pont (the short-lived Graham Laidler), one of the finest cartoonists from Punch's golden age between the wars.

To 27 Jul

Psycho Buildings Hayward Gallery

Artists do fantasy architectural installations, and despite the "Psycho" billing, it's an extremely child-pleasing summer-months show. To 25 Aug

Bob Dylan Halcyon Gallery

The Drawn Blank Series: OK, he's not much of a visual artist, but any manifestation of Bob Dylan's mind and body deserves attention. To 13 Jul

Certain Trees: the Constructed Book, Poem and Object, 1964-2008 V&A

Inventions in word, image and paper: a key survey of this neglected art form, notable for its laconic wit and poetry. To 17 Aug

From Atoms to Patterns Wellcome Collection

Science-art collaboration from 1951: the Festival of Britain "Pattern Group" created textile designs out of crystal structures. To 10 Aug

Folkestone Triennial

Various venues

The first one ever. A roll-call of mainly British artists intervene in the streets, squares, buildings and beaches of the Kent port. To 14 Sept

Ana Maria Pacheco Stanny House Farm, Woodbridge

The Brazilian sculptor stages a tableau of wide-eyed, menacing, over-life-sized wooden effigies. To 28 Jun

Gary Hume Modern Art Oxford

A series of dumb, blank-faced geometrical abstractions, based on the forms of double swing doors in hospitals and other public buildings. To 31 Aug

British Surrealism & Other Realities Mima, Middlesbrough

It happened here, too: forgotten work by Humphrey Jennings, Emmy Bridgwater, John Tunnard and more from the Sherwin Collection. To 17 Aug

Frank Auerbach Abbot Hall, Kendal

Frank Auerbach without paint: human heads and bodies materialising in dense tangles and expansive loops of wiry, spidery lines. To 21 Jun

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