Joe Orton, Kenneth Halliwell, The Islington Library Books, 1959-62. Defaced book jacket of The 3 Faces of Eve by Thigpen and Cleckley. Halliwell and Orton worked mischief on book jackets, collaging pictures with the covers of dull titles. This impish act of art stealth has inspired Gilliam's latest installation, on show alongside some of the original doctored dust jackets. At Ancient & Modern, EC1, Thu to 26 Feb
Photograph: Courtesy Islington Local History Centre/The Random House Group Ltd/The Orton Estate
Young's Memento Park (video still) – shot in a statue park in Budapest. Here the monumental stasis of social realist statues contrasts with everyday life that passes them by, seemingly obliviously. At Eastside Projects, to 29 Jan
Photograph: Courtesy the artist and Eastside Projects
Untitled (2010) by Cindy Sherman. The identity-shifting artist's latest weird figures include a female juggler, a medieval knight and a woman wielding a plastic sword while dressed in a baggy nude body suit. At Sprüth Magers, WC1, Wed to 19 Feb
Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers Berlin London
Seers Catalogue (video still) by Dave Griffiths. Griffiths presents his film and lightbox installation, a series of variations on a theme that, with deadpan earnestness, takes in primordial myth and post-nuclear apocalypse, accompanied with a melodramatic voiceover. At Bureau, to 29 Jan Photograph: PR
Image from Southside (Zuid) (2010), Erik Van Lieshout's latest video, which is the result of six months spent in a Rotterdam mall where he explored the evolution of his former neighbourhood. At Hayward Project Space, SE1, Wed to 27 Feb
Photograph: Copyright and courtesy the artist
Drawing by Ellard & Johnstone based on one of Moholy-Nagy’s photographs of the model film set made for Things to Come. The collaborative duo, specialists in complex assemblages of assorted fragments, promise to stage something special for the Site Platform season. At the Site Gallery, Tue to 29 Jan Photograph: PR
Untitled (After a Still Life) by Liz Ballard. As part of this show tackling pollution, Ballard's drawing of murky ripples responds to research on the sullied waters of the local River Wensum. At Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts, Sat to 16 Jan
Photograph: Courtesy the artist
The Tete-a-Tete Tea by George Bernard O'Neill. Heavily influenced by the 17th-century Flemish genre painting, a group of British artists in Cranbrook, Kent, produced moderately charming paintings and drawings in the latter half of the 19th century of the supposed attractions of life down on the farm. At Wolverhampton Art Gallery, to 26 Feb
Photograph: Todd White Art Photography/Wolverhampton Arts & Heritage
