Stuffed Tokyo super-rats and Isaac Julien’s abolition hero – the week in art

A vibrant survey of the Olympic capital in art and a 10-screen video devoted to anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass – all in your weekly dispatch

Tokyo: Art and Photography
Exciting and eye-opening survey of one of the world’s great art cities, from 17th-century paintings of courtesans and samurai to a stuffed specimen of today’s urban super-rats.
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 29 July to 3 January.

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