Sculpture
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Double vision: the artist duos who think as oneBrothers, sisters, lovers, others ... London’s Royal Academy celebrates the work of artist duos in its summer exhibition. From Jake and Dinos Chapman to the Wilson twins, four twosomes reveal how they work – and stay – together
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres review – holding a mirror up to love and lossHauser & Wirth, London
This yearning, enigmatic show brings together a series of fragmentary images from 1991 – the year Gonzalez-Torres’s lover died of an Aids-related illness -
Butterflies, bacchanalia and Francis Bacon – the week in artThe Louvre’s pyramid disappears, Tate Modern previews its £260m Switch House and Tracey Emin explains the joys of marrying a stone – all in your weekly art dispatch
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Five of the best... exhibitions this weekMassimo Vitali | Bridget Riley | Russia And The Arts | Master Strokes | Bettina von Zwehl
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Anatomy of an artwork: Jean Dubuffet’s Garden PartyDissecting the renowned French artist’s iconic 1976 work
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Jeff Koons, Creed cheese and Grayson Perry's phallus – the week in artCory Arcangel swaps canvas for clickbait, Ai Weiwei gives his verdict on the EU and the weird world of Victorian medical models – all in your weekly art dispatch
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Glasgow gangster turned writer Jimmy Boyle: ‘I would be dead now without books'The convicted murderer set the standard for prison writing with A Sense of Freedom in 1977. As it is republished, he talks about honour, violence and redemption as a novelist and sculptor
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Britain’s suffragettes don’t need another statueLetters: There is already a memorial to the foot-soldiers of the women’s suffrage campaign just a few hundred metres from Parliament Square in London
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Romania calls on citizens to help buy Brâncuși sculptureRomanians can collectively own work by Constantin Brâncuși by donating to multimillion-euro fundraising campaign
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Jeff Koons: Now review – Damien Hirst's joyless paean to Donald Trump of artFrom sexed-up Hoovers to kitsch kids’ toys, Hirst’s celebration of his biggest artistic influence is empty of emotion, revealing the shallowness of his own art
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Ai Weiwei says EU's refugee deal with Turkey is immoralUnveiling work documenting his time on Lesbos, Chinese artist describes getting caught up in ‘shameful humanitarian crisis’
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Robert Peston may have picked the wrong battleLetters: Parthenon marbles | Orgreave and Saltley | Robert Peston | 11th century rules | Super-rich investors | Teachers’ accents
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Vagina kayaks, sunken cities and a cheeky Turner list – the week in artBacon hits Merseyside, the Panama Papers inspire ‘offshore paintings’, and we reveal African photography’s rising stars – all in your weekly art dispatch
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Antiques Roadshow's jug gaffe vexed me – if only it had been the UK showThe US spinoff’s mistaken valuation shows up what’s wrong with the BBC flagship. Where once the Beeb encouraged art for its own sake, here profit is king
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Beyond buttocks: this Turner prize shortlist is cheeky and smartThere’s no singing, no painting and not a video in sight. But we do have choo-choos, a live ant farm – and plenty of games
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Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art review – sculptors who shaped the American wildernessFrom the Spiral Jetty to creations on the scale of Stonehenge, James Crumb’s fascinating documentary pays tribute to the real outsider art
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Sculptor Antony Gormley: 'the selfie is charming' but it's a modern paradoxThe British artist known for his public installations – which often inspire many creative selfies – is about to open a new solo exhibition in New York
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Greece looks to international justice to regain Parthenon marbles from UKAs 200th anniversary of artefacts’ removal approaches, Greek culture minister says government will appeal to courts and the likes of UN
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Boys cry, Hatoum electrifies and dada sells out – the week in artGeorge Shaw unveils the fruits of his National Gallery residency, Ai Weiwei gets into the film business and we salute Marisol – all in your weekly art dispatch
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Knotted gun sculptor Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd dies at 81Swedish artist behind iconic Non-Violence artwork died on Tuesday evening at a hospital in Helsingborg
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Wild walks, slides and crazy golf: art shows to throw yourself intoStuck for summer fun? Well, why not play golf with Jeremy Deller, spiral down a chute with Carsten Höller, or get lost in Edinburgh’s eerie sculpture park?
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High concept, high craft: Fiona Hall's must-see exhibition opens in CanberraFirst appearing at the 2015 Venice Biennale, the dark, urgent Wrong Way Time comprises about 800 objects – one of the NGA’s most complex installations ever
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Golden arches: spot the famous fast food logo in art – in picturesKeith Coventry’s white monochromatic paintings of smoothly sloping forms derive from a global burger brand – in his new work, the former YBA employs the same geometry in bronze and gold sculptures
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Naked contortions, empty exhibitions and Lego's mistake – the week in artPolly Penrose poses awkwardly for women everywhere, as Mona Hatoum arrives at Tate and Maria Eichhorn closes the Chisenhale – all in your weekly art dispatch
Artist Mary Heilmann: the Californian surfer still making waves in her 70s