Flowers, fabric bridges and Ukip's refugee poster – the week in art

Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico (1930). Photograph: Tate Photograph: 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/ DACS, London

Exhibition of the week

Georgia O’Keeffe
One of America’s most iconic artists brings her desert blooms to the British summer.
• Tate Modern, London, 6 July-30 October

David Hockney’s Celia Birtwell, 31 August - 4 September (2015). Photograph: Richard Schmidt/David Hockney

Also showing

David Hockney
Do experienced old hands make the best painters, as David Hockney recently claimed? The 78 year old’s latest portraits “and 1 still life” ought to offer some evidence to chew on.
• Royal Academy, London, 2 July-2 October

Inspiring Impressionism
The influence of Charles-François Daubigny on Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh is explored in what is bound to be a seductive trip through landscapes of the 19th-century mind.
• Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, 25 June-2 October

Making and Unmaking
Fashion designer Duro Olowu curates a provocative mix of west African textiles with modern and contemporary art by Claude Cahun, Fernand Leger, Yinka Shonibare and many more.
• Camden Arts Centre, London, until 18 September

Christopher Wood
This modernist who adopted a deliberately archaic “outsider” style died in 1930, aged just 29.
• Pallant House, Chichester, 2 July-2 October

Masterpiece of the week

Claude Monet’s The Gare St-Lazare (1877). Photograph: The National Gallery, London

Claude Monet, The Gare St-Lazare (1877)
This smoky vision of Paris encapsulates everything glamorous and exhilarating about French art and shows how much Monet did to invent modernity.
• National Gallery, London

Image of the week

Jeff Mitchell’s shot of refugees crossing from into Slovenia - speaking about Ukip’s use of it in its EU referendum campaign poster, he said: “People are very intelligent – they could see this was clearly not a group of people coming to the UK. They aren’t sucked in that easily.” Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

What we learned

Anish Kapoor’s Orbit has finally been turned into a 178m corkscrew slide

Two of Joseph Wright’s landscapes have made a triumphant return to Derby

Clara Drummond has won the BP portrait award on her third attempt

Academic buildings dominate this year’s RIBA awards for UK architecture

A 3,000 sq ft piece of art was flown over Orlando, New York and Chicago to demonstrate gun violence in the US

A Swat van spraypainted by Banksy is expected to fetch up to £300,000 at auction

Martin Jennings’s statue of Mary Seacole will be the first named memorial statue of a black woman in the UK

Chris Watson recorded football fans and dung flies for his portrait of Newcastle’s Town Moor

Margaret Meehan combats sexist stereotypes with glue and glitter

Liliane Lijn says it was William Burroughs who warned her off drugs

Stanley Spencer used to rummage through rubbish bins as a child

Painters’ Paintings at the National Gallery is ‘an electric conversation’

A new George Stubbs show presents his radical vision through animal eyes

Wildwood, New Jersey was once home to the finest modernist motels in the world

Christo’s 1.9-mile fabric bridge has been closed after visitors began to wear it out

Tate Modern has been forced to removed its macaws from the Switch House

And David Hockney thinks he may still have his best work ahead of him

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