Lilac field detail from Peter Doigs Untitled (2001-02). Photograph: Dacs 2017

Bacon to Doig This ambitious survey of modern British art drawn from a rich private collection ranges from Freud to Perry, Hepworth and Hockney, and should be an exciting view of the art of our place and times. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 18 February31 January 2018

Genecraft Artists and scientists collaborate to create art that uses the latest genetic research as its subject and even material. BOM, Birmingham, 22 February13 May

Places of the Mind John Singer Sargent and Paul Nash are among the stars of this examination of British watercolour art from 1850 to 1950. British Museum, London, 23 February27 August

Sidney Nolan in Britain This powerful Australian artist who painted Ned Kelly had to come to Britain to succeed, this exhibition shows. Pallant House, Chichester, 18 February4 June

Park Seo-bo Abstract paintings inspired by Korean calligraphy and philosophy. White Cube, Masons Yard, London, until 11 March

Claude Landscape With Aeneas at Delos (1672)

Claude creates an eerily beautiful dream of ancient history in this painting inspired by Virgils Latin poem the Aeneid. The figures are really just part of an abstracted composition, in which watery blue light and calmly proportioned architecture work together like a softly played cello concerto, sustaining a mood of sombre nostalgia. National Gallery, London

A shot from Richard Mosses new video work Incoming, which opened this week at the Barbicans Curve gallery. Mosse filmed migrants from Syria and elsewhere with a military thermal-imaging camera. Does an artwork that sets out to challenge documentary tropes end up aestheticising human suffering by rendering it mere spectacle? wondered the Guardians Sean OHagan. The tension between the wilfully unreal textural beauty of the film and it is pure texture, from start to finish and the human tragedy it records is undoubtedly part of its power.

Wolfgang Tillmanss Tate Modern show opened to a five-star review from Adrian Searle

and the artist himself talked to us about his career and political activism

Kate Connolly met the gold-fixated artist Joe Ramirez in his Berlin studio

Olafur Eliasson told us about his cultural highlights, from Adam Curtis to Rebecca Solnit

Rowan Moore champions the under-threat University of Durham building Dunelm House

Photographer Tom Atwood told us about his best shot: the director of Grease by his LA swimming pool, accompanied by a horse and goat

Hairdresser to the homeless Mark Bustos talked us through the photos of his work

Anish Kapoor is one of the artists who have signed up to an art coalition to fight rightwing populism

Frances Spalding wrote about Joan Eardley, the late British painter who is (very slowly) gathering acclaim

Sothebys has hired forensic scientists amid a wave of forgeries

And the auction house has also said postwar German artists are currently defining the market

A Hockney print that hung in a Bradford chippy is going on sale

Childrens illustrator Dahlov Ipcar died aged 99 here are some of her best works

The Bodleians new exhibition shows that the power of volcanoes will never lie dormant

Laura Cumming reviewed the RAs exhibition of Russian revolution-era art

A Parmigiano painting could go overseas if the UK doesnt find nearly 25m for it

Vandals have targeted a display of multifaith artworks at Gloucester Cathedral

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