More exhibitions, including Bernd & Hilla Becher

Bernd & Hilla Becher, Spruth Magers, London

It is hard to think of any postwar European photographs more influential than the Bechers' panoramic, austerely rigorous, deliberate images of the Rhineland industrial landscape. Teaching at Dusseldorf, the Bechers shaped the vision of the 21st-century's top-selling artists including Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Thomas Struth and Thomas Ruff, who co-opt documentary approaches into spectacular art photography. The Bechers' neutral, cerebral, studied approach also shares an aesthetic with German painters, especially Gerhard Richter. This is the first solo show of their work in London since 1998.

spruethmagers.com, 020 7408 1613, Wednesday to October 4

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Whose Gaze Is It Anyway? ICA, London

Part of next month's Safar: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema, this display curated by Omar Kholeif opens with rare film posters and historic publications from the 1930s, loaned to the UK for the first time from the Beirut collection of Abboudi Bou Jaoudeh. Contemporary works include Sophia Al-Maria's imaginary poster and notebooks for her unfinished Beretta, a rape-revenge movie set in Cairo, Maha Maamoun's Domestic Tourism II, a film about the symbolism of Egypt's pyramids, and Raed Yassin's video Disco, the story of his father, a disco-addict working in the Egyptian horror film industry.

ica.org.uk, 020 7930 3647, Tuesday to October 5

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Gilbert & George: Scapegoating Pictures for London White Cube, London

Sixty new photograph-based silvery-grey artworks, starring as ever the celebrated London "living sculptures". This time they appear as strangely masked figures, or capering skeletons, or spirit forms, in a vision of over-technological, multi-faith 21st-century urban life characterised by fear of terrorism, fundamentalism and escapism, and dominated in these images by the motif of a bombshaped canister, containing nitrous oxide to be recreationally inhaled to induce euphoria and hallucinations.

whitecube.com, 020 7930 5373, to September 28

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Barbara Hepworth: Within the Landscape, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria

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"I the sculptor am the landscape. I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour."

Hepworth's convergence of body and natural forms continues to have an impact on art today; this show explores her multi-faceted, changing relationship with landscape, and includes iconic pieces: "Stringed Figure (Curlew)", "Torso III (Galatea)", "Moon Form", plus prints, photographs and archive material on the theme. This is a taster for Tate Britain's major Hepworth retrospective next year.

abbothall.org.uk, 01539 722564, to September 28

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Summer Showcase: Bruegel to Freud, Courtauld Gallery, London

The least-known part of the Courtauld's fabulous collection of works on paper is the prints. Highlights spanning half a millennium trace the development and variety of printmaking: Mantegna, Bruegel, Canaletto, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Matisse, Lucian Freud and Chris Ofili.

courtauld.ac.uk, 020 7848 2526, to September 21

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