1 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Superb art and revolutionary politics fill this epic show. The age of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers saw a new consciousness take hold of black US artists. David Hammons made powerful satirical prints before evolving into an incisive conceptual provocateur. Betye Saar created poetry out of junk. Barkley Hendricks portrayed himself as a hero of modern life. An exciting new perspective on the greatest era of American art.
Tate Modern, SE1, to 22 October

2 Emma Stibbon

There is nothing like a good volcano to get the artistic pulse going. Artists have been portraying one of nature’s most entrancing and dangerous spectacles ever since the idea spread about in the 18th century that the “sublime” can be more powerful than mere beauty. Emma Stibbon has spent a residency at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park among volcanoes such as Kīlauea and Mauna Loa. Her giant woodcuts and drawings depict the dynamism of these molten marvels.
Alan Cristea Gallery, SW1, 2-30 September

3 Turkish Tulips

The tulip craze in 17th-century Amsterdam pitted insanely competitive flower breeders against one another, drove a market bubble and gave still-life painters a new theme. Renderings of the eastern flower still seduce artists: the likes of Peter Blake, Damien Hirst, Cornelia Parker and Mat Collishaw show off their prize petals in this exhibition curated by Gavin Turk.
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, to 5 November

4 Beyond Caravaggio

Nobody should miss the glint of Caravaggio’s blade or the glow of his compassion. Troubled, violent and doomed, this natural-born genius took Rome by storm around 1600 with his sensual feel for reality. A few years later, he was on the run after killing a man. A handful of his masterpieces mingle here with works by the baroque artists who interpreted his influence.
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, to 24 September

5 Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains

What would the V&A’s Victorian founders say about its exhibition of the relics of a psychedelic entity that evolved into a stadium behemoth? They would probably admire the engineering prowess of it all. Flying inflatable pigs over Battersea Power Station, playing live at Pompeii, building a wall in front of themselves on stage … wish you were here?
Victoria & Albert Museum, SW7, to 1 October