The week in art

The British Museum joins the Louvre and Guggenheim museums in heading to Saadiyat Island, a project with ambitions to become the cultural capital of the Middle East. The new building will see the British museum partnering with the national museum of Abu Dhabi, and will be designed by Norman Foster. Pictured here is an artist's impression of the new Performing Arts Centre on the island designed by Zaha Hadid Photograph: Zaha Hadid architects/PR

Subterrania, Fiona Crisp's six-year-long photographic study of heritage sites, opens today at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. The show features images of Roman catacombs, a lead-mining museum in County Durham, and a second-world-war underground hospital in Guernsey Photograph: courtesy of the artist and Matts Gallery/PR

Field for the British Isles, Antony Gormley's sculpture of 40,000 hand-sized terracotta figures, is on show again, this time at Torre Abbey in Torquay. Crafted with the help of families in Merseyside in 1993, the work was followed by Gormley's Turner prize victory that year Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA

A new exhibition of Dennis Oppenheim's land art has gone on display at Scolacium Archaeological Park in Catanzaro, Italy. Alternative Landscape, which runs until 3 November 2009, places the artist's ultra-modern structures against the backdrop of an archaeological site Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images

A sudden boost to the Palm Springs Art Museum's contemporary art collection came in the form of a windfall donation by US art collectors Donna and Cargill MacMillan. The new additions – 116 pieces by 66 artists – include works by Andy Warhol and Gary Hume (whose American Tan III is pictured here), as well as sculptures by Anish Kapoor Photograph: Stephen White/Jay Jopling/White Cube /PR

Art sales on both sides of the Atlantic may have dropped due to a shrinking economy, but attendance at National Trust heritage sites, such as Philip Johnsons's Glass House in Connecticut, pictured here, appears to be growing. 'There's definitely something in the air,' says Fiona Reynolds of the UK's National Trust, which has reported a 24% increase in visitor numbers since last year Photograph: Richard Schulman/Corbis

Business is thriving in the village of Son Dong in Vietnam. Locals are known for crafting wooden statues and objects of worship and the small village has been enjoying a burst of economic growth recently, as easing of restrictions on religious activities has increased demand for religious crafts Photograph: Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty