Art weekly: David Lynch hates graffiti, and Gerhard Richter is shocked by his own price at auction

David Lynch hates graffiti, and Gerhard Richter is shocked by his own price at auction – the week in art The film-maker takes a swipe at graffiti artists while Richter slams the art market. Plus, the Magna Carta goes on display, and a designer imagines animals of the future, including reflective cats – all in your weekly dispatch Jonathan Jones theguardian.com, Friday 13 March 2015 12.01 EDT Jump to comments (…) Legal unprecedents … one of the four remaining Magna Carta manuscripts, from 1215, is currently on show at the British Library, alongside – for the first time in this country – Jefferson’s handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence and an original copy of the US Bill of Rights. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Exhibition of the week Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, LegacyThis surprisingly moving array of medieval and modern documents, superbly contextualised and translated, and spiced with fascinating works of art from manuscript illuminations to newspaper cartoons, tells the thought-provoking story of how the middle ages invented human rights. • British Library, London NW1, from 13 March until 1 September. Other exhibitions this week Savage Beauty The V&A puts on another pop-cultural blockbuster that will probably sell more tickets than any high art exhibition, this time looking at the achievements of the fashion designer Alexander McQueen. • V&A, London SW7, from 14 March until 2 August. György Kepes The multimedia art of this Hungarian pioneer of modernist photography is a game of light and shadow. • Tate Liverpool, until 31 May. Revelations: Experiments in Photography Early experimental Victorian photography is seen here as an influence on today’s art. • Science Museum, London SW7, from 20 March until 13 September. Roy Lichtenstein A choice of the pop artist’s works from the superb Artist Rooms national collection. • Modern One, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, from 14 March until 10 January 2016. Masterpiece of the Week The Wilton Diptych, c1395-99. Photograph: The Gallery Collection/Corbis The Wilton Diptych c1395-99 This anonymous medieval painting belonged to Richard II and may have accompanied him into captivity after he was overthrown. Beyond its fascinating association with a royal tragedy, retold by Shakespeare, it is a beautiful masterpiece of Gothic art. • National Gallery, London WC2 Image of the week Transformation of Energy by pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott (1958).Photograph: Berenice Abbott/MIT Museum, gift of Ronald and Carol Kurtz What we learned this week David Lynch is not a fan of graffiti Real artist spats are better than imagined ones Berenice Abbot was a science photography pioneer What biologically engineered animals bred to resist extinction might look like – including highwire giraffes, beaked porcupines and reflective cats How Jason Rhoades became the all-American bad boy of art What to do if you see a USB stick sticking out of a wall About the Afghan artist donning armour to counteract men’s street harassment That Gerhard Richter thinks it’s “shocking” how much art sells for, after one of his own works goes for £30m And finally ... Follow us on Twitter Share your art about the future now