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Tom Friedman's 'Untitled (A Curse)', one of the Hayward's teasingly nonexistent artworks

Invisible, Hayward Gallery, London

Here's one empty space that Andy Warhol once stood in, and another empty space cursed by a witch ... if this a joke, then perhaps it's on us

The innovative hang at the RA's Summer Exhibition is a step forward

RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

Young blood and a fresh hanging policy at the Royal Academy kick-start a show traditionally immobilised by portraits of tabbies

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

I’m dragging my damp feet a little on the way to the Royal Academy’s 244th Summer Exhibition: I don’t tend to enjoy seeing those beautiful galleries stuffed ceiling-high with thousands of uninspired animal paintings, still lifes and landscapes, and I find the show’s lack of engagement with new media (if we can still even call it that) borderline perverse.

Fiona Rae's 'We Go in Search of Our Dream'

Fiona Rae, Maybe You Can Live on the Moon in the Next Century, Leeds Art Gallery

Fiona Rae describes her love of painting thus: "You get to invent a world and you get to be in charge of what happens in that world. And you don't really get to do that in life, do you?" She smiles at the camera and continues to work on the lilac space around a pink Hallmark-esque heart, superimposed on the canvas. A lime-green thread appears, faintly, under her brush.

Large Two Forms, 1966, is on loan from Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where it has been worn by the rain, and by generations of children climbing through it

Henry Moore: Late Large Forms, Gagosian Britannia Street, London

Gigantic bronze sculptures that fight for attention in public squares get a quiet place of their own

Emin's work at Margate

Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer, White Cube Bermondsey, London; Tracey Emin: She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea, Turner Contemporary, Margate

The sharks are circling Damien while Tracey displays a quiet maturity in her latest work

The Grand Tourist John Henderson was shipping this picture home to Fife on board the Westmorland in 1779

The English Prize, Ashmolean

Captured – snapshots of a Georgian holiday

St Luke Painting an Icon of the Virgin and Child,
by El Greco

El Greco and Modernism, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Urs Fischer: Madame Fisscher, Palazzo Grassi, Venice

Careful curators let us see how a rebel Byzantine painter cast a spell over Picasso et al

Moholy-Nagy's <i>Prospectus</i> cover (1928)

Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican Gallery, London

This useful show leads us through Bauhauser paintings, furniture, even puppets, all forged in the years between the darkness of two world wars

Louboutin flash: the designer recently tried - unsuccessfully - to stop other makers using his signature red sole

Christian Louboutin, Design Museum, London

But they are designed to transport wearer and onlooker alike into a world rich with suggestion

<i>Octopus Portrait</i> by Yumiko Utsu

Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London

In the age of digital manipulation, the camera is having a identity crisis – and it's not a pretty sight

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Various venues

The scale of this Scottish art festival makes others look meagre, and the quality of the work is very tasty too

Awoman's bag and its contents, arranged by Feldmann, who bought the lot from its owner

Hans-Peter Feldmann, Sepentine Gallery, London

A German artist who arranges found objects claims that he is merely an archivist, but the stuff doesn't just fall out this way

One of Hirst's sought-after Spot paintings catches a visitor's eye at Tate Modern

Damien Hirst, Tate Modern, London
Gillian Wearing, Whitechapel Gallery, London

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Remote Control, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

As the television switchover springs us gaily into digital, that endlessly malleable world of glittering pixels, what is it that we are leaving behind us (aside from a mountain of outdated TVs)?

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