The week in art

British photographer Cecil Beaton's starry portraits are to go on show next week at Chris Beetles gallery. The exhibition includes photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo and Evelyn Waugh Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images

US photographer Robert Adams has been named the winner of Sweden's 2009 Hasselblad Award, a photography prize worth just over $60,000. Adams, best known for his elegiac silver gelatin prints of the American West, was declared 'one of the most important photographers of the last 40 years' by judges. Pictured here is Sheridan Boulevard, Lakewood, Colorado, c.1970 Photograph: Robert Adams/PR

A giant, luminous white head entitled Dream is to be installed next to the M62 motorway near St Helens on Merseyside, this summer. The work, by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa, has the Taxpayer's Alliance in a tizzy over the £2m cost. They say: 'in the middle of a recession … it's obscene to spend [the money] on this huge folly' Photograph: PR

Designed in collaboration with Prada, Rem Koolhaas's shape-shifting pavilion the Transformer will be unveiled in Seoul, South Korea next week. The project will host a series of cross-cultural shows including the first ever Prada exhibition and a festival of films Photograph: PR

Architect and designer Ron Arad an showat the Timothy Taylor gallery, London, this week. The exhibition, filled with voluptuous aluminium and mirror sculptures, features an installation called Oh, the Farmer and the Cowman Should be Friends (shown here) as its centrepiece Photograph: Courtesy Ron Arad Associates and Timothy Taylor Gallery, London/PR

A collection of 10 significant works by Polish painter, Tamara de Lempicka, are to go on auction at Sotheby's, New York, next month. The paintings, from de Lempicka's prime, “embody the spirit of the Art Deco era, its style and modernity,” according to the auction house. Expected to fetch up to $6m each, they include the alluring Portrait de la Duchesse and Le telephone II (pictured here) Photograph: PR

Arts Council England's Own Art scheme celebrates its fifth anniversary this week, totting up sales of more than 13,000 artworks worth over £10m. Own Art operates “to make contemporary art affordable and accessible to all” buy offering buyers interest-free loans from £200 to £2000 to spend on contemporary art. Pictured here is one of the works available through the scheme, Sarah Morris's Robert Towne (2006), for sale via Whitechapel gallery Photograph: PR