Exhibition of the week
William Eggleston Portraits
Powerful and haunting images of the American south by one of the country’s greatest photographers.
• National Portrait Gallery, London, 21 July-23 October.
Also showing
Marcus Harvey
Rancid images of Britain from the artist notorious for exhibiting a portrait of Myra Hindley at the Royal Academy.
• Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, 16 July-16 October
Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick
Mat Collishaw and Jane and Louise Wilson are among the artists paying homage to one of the most visually creative of filmmakers.
• Somerset House, London, until 24 August
The Body Extended
Matthew Barney and Rebecca Horn feature alongside false body parts made for soldiers maimed and disfigured in the first world war in an exhibition about sculpture and prosthetics.
• Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, until 23 October
Terence Donovan
Relive the Swinging 60s through Donovan’s iconic photographs of Twiggy and Terence Stamp.
• Photographers’ Gallery, London, 15 July-25 September
Masterpiece of the week
This is one of the greatest self portraits ever painted, a picture of a troubled man, uncertain of his own identity. Cézanne looks at himself in doubt and perturbation. He is a true modern.
• National Gallery, London.
Image of the week
A Botticelli nymph attacked by Star Wars baddies ... A moment stilled from days of rage creates a stillness, a silence, into which we pour our belief in the human spirit.
What we learned
The whole truth about Van Gogh’s ear and the myth of his mad genius
Hull was treated to a sea of 3,500 strangers, naked and painted blue
... and this is what it felt like to strip for the photographer Spencer Tunick
David Bowie’s private art collection is up for auction – and it’s a corker
Rare unpublished photographs by Diane Arbus go on show in New York
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery is up for the RIBA Stirling prize
The treasures at Liverpool Biennial make it worth sidestepping the trash
This year’s Arles photo festival focuses on the 9/11 attacks, 15 years on
David Adjaye and his DJ brother, Peter, have made an architecture album
Colour and Vision at the Natural History Museum is a real peepshow
London mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked extra funds to the Garden Bridge
Raqib Shaw is back at White Cube with his phantasmagorical portraits
That’s a massive boat, not a whale in Jeremy Sutton’s photo of Glasgow
Construction workers have mistakenly destroyed some Banksy stencils
Jason Farago bids adieu to New York’s modernist cathedral, the Four Seasons
Andy Beckett tracks the fall and rise of the London council estate
Sheila Bownas was queen of the 1950s textile pattern
Mumbai taxi drivers sure know how to decal their cabs
The best drone photography in 2016
And finally, what did the Romans ever do for us? Quite a lot, actually …
Artist’s video
Khalid Albaih, a Sudanese political cartoonist who lives in Qatar, is taking a road trip across the US with 10 Middle Eastern artists, collectively known as Culturunners.
Get involved
A-Z of readers’ art – your art on the theme of illumination
J is for juxtaposition – share your new artwork now
Guardian Witness – have you moved to London from abroad?
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