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Conflict, industry and landscape are on the agenda this week as we recommend shows in London, Leeds, Manchester, Brighton and Edinburgh.

The Platform Award is an annual initiative involving five galleries that provides professional exhibiting opportunities for graduates in the South East of England. As the first of three shows at Modern Art Oxford opens, Richard Taylor finds out more.

Building up to the release of Bob & Roberta Smith’s feature film on 21 August, an exhibition of Art Party memorabilia opens tomorrow Saturday 9 August in Scarborough.

Ceramic artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper have installed a sea of red poppies in the dry moat surrounding the Tower of London to mark the centenary anniversary of the first world war. Pippa Koszerek takes a closer look.

Stephanie Rosenthal, chief curator at the Hayward Gallery, has been announced as the new artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney.

Artist Rosie Emerson has created the world’s largest cyanotype photograph – measuring over 46 square metres – as part of the Hackney WickED Art Festival.

Central to this year’s tenth anniversary edition of the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is a newly commissioned documentary by US experimental filmmaker Ben Russell.

Memory, permanence and motorcycle counterculture are on the agenda this week as we take in Phil Root’s ‘erasure’ works in Exeter, Richard Bernstein’s magazine cover art in London and Charlie Woolley’s continuing exploration of the avatar in Plymouth.

Sean Edwards has won the Fine Art award for his film about a failed utopian shopping centre, while Susan Phillips has been awarded the Craft and Design prize for her ceramic sculptures exploring the pairing of opposites.

Marina Abramović’s New York-based institute for performance art is looking for experienced applicants for some key part-time roles. But there’s a catch – you need to be able to commit to two or more days a week and not expect to get paid.

A new photobook from The Archive of Modern Conflict captures the magic and vertiginous tomfoolery of 1930s Cambridge undergraduates climbing the city’s buildings by night. Tim Clark considers the merits of Thomas Mailaender’s The Night Climbers of Cambridge.

The UK’s largest drawing prize announces the selection for its 20th edition.

Hackney WickED returns for its sixth incarnation in seven years – this time with Arts Council England funding.

Since 2012 the Edinburgh Art Festival has had ‘tourists-in-residence’, Edinburgh-based artists commissioned to create work around the theme of a tour. Richard Taylor talks to this year’s residents, who plan to be gagged and blindfolded for their first tour around the city.

With the help of the European Space Agency, artist Katie Paterson will send a meteorite back into space at 12.40 am tomorrow morning.

The renowned curator of photography, and former Head of Art Galleries at the Barbican Centre, has been announced as the new Head of Photography at the Science Museum Group.

Ambitious plans for a ‘new centre for the arts in south London’, to be part funded by an auction of artworks donated by college alumni, have been announced by Goldsmiths, University of London.

This week’s selections include a ‘topical’ collection of new works by Gilbert and George in London, pioneering abstract paintings by the British post-war artist Sandra Blow in Penzance, and a series of ‘exuberant’ installations by Phyllida Barlow – made in response to the unique surroundings of Hauser and Wirth’s gallery space in Somerset.