The week in art

Art HK 09, Hong Kong's international art fair, saw 110 galleries from 24 countries setting up shop to sell their wares in a bouyant Asian market. This work from Chinese artist Mu Boyan, entitled Nude No 2, attracted plenty of attention from visitors to the fair but it was British artists – including Julian Opie, Gilbert and George and Damien Hirst – who totted up some of the biggest sales Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

The 20-year career of Brazilian brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana has been honoured with a major retrospective, Antibodies, at the Vitra design museum on Weil-am-Rhein in Germany. The pair have credited Brazilian street life and carnival culture as inspiration for their designs, including their series of furry chairs made from cuddly toys. Antibodies will be on show until February 2010 Photograph: PR

The 81-lot African and Oceanic art sale at Sotheby's exceeded expectations with sculptures, masks and figurative art selling for a total of $4.4m. This Bamum buffalo mask from Cameroon alone doubled its estimated price and was snapped up for $27,500 Photograph: PR

The second annual New York Photo festival wrapped up earlier this week, with the work of up-and-coming photographers displayed alongside some of the world's best. Organisers of the event, held in Dumbo, Brooklyn hoped the festival and its awards would 'document the future of photography in all its forms'. Singapore-based Felix Hug won in the editorial single image category for his work (pictured here), Ape Man Walking Photograph: PR

A frail Tony Curtis, 82, arrived in London this week to promote an exhibition of his art at Harrods. The actor has been painting for close to 30 years. 'I am not a celebrity fucking painter!' he once told the Guardian. He often pimps up collages of his younger self with spatters of paint and kitsch pop art accents. Making art, he says, 'is another vocation, another language' that is 'just as important' to him as acting Photograph: PR

Norman Foster, the man behind the Gherkin, Wembley stadium and the rebuilding of Germany's Reichstag, has been honoured with Spain's most prestigious arts prize, the Principe de Asturias. The UK architect, who turns 74 next month, was praised by the jury for 'a continual commitment to architecture's most noble values'. He joins Woody Allen and Bob Dylan on the list of former winners Photograph: Martin Godwin/Guardian

An Aborigine artist from a remote desert community was announced this week as the first Australian to design for French fashion house, Hermès. Gloria Petyarre's painting Bush Medicine Leaf Dreaming has become the pattern for one of the company's famous silk scarves. Art gallery owner Lauraine Diggins, who first exhibited Petyarre's work in Paris, said Hermes had given a 'substantial fee' to the artist and would be paying royalties for 75 years Photograph: PR