Ai Weiwei pushes Manchester’s buttons, a ceramicist makes it personal and frames get reframed – the week in art

Exhibition of the week Ai Weiwei: Button Up!If any artist can fill the vast home of Factory International, it’s Ai Weiwei, with an installation about world history, colonialism … and buttons.• Aviva Studios, Manchester, from 2 July to 6 September Also showing Lindsey MendickThis artist, who can make wild and hilarious ceramics as easily as most people burn toast, explores a personal trauma. • Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, from 28 June to 30 August Anne HardyEerie figurative sculpture in an installation that mixes bronze and ceramics with raw found materials.• Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, from 27 June to 27 September The Artist’s FrameIt’s summer and this group show featuring Matilda Bevan, Carolyn Blake, Filippo Caramazza and many more addresses the suitably fun theme of the frame in art.• Bobinska Brownlee New River, London, until 25 July Xanthe Somers and Yacout HamdouchA brightly colourful exhibition marrying Somers’s eye-fooling stoneware with Hamdouch’s abstract paintings.• October Gallery, London, from 2 July to 15 August Image of the week Every image of Freida Kahlo, the subject of a new exhibition at Tate Modern, is interesting. But nobody could portray her like she portrayed herself. She took self-portraiture to new levels of interior revelation, psychological and physical. Inspired partly by the surrealists and partly by Catholic traditions of depicting pain, Kahlo took herself apart and put herself back together in images of suffering, survival and triumph. Read the full review. What we learned The Tate’s Frida exhibition may have overlooked some of her more problematic tendencies An eccentric collector has chronicled his travels via the humble airline sickbag Only two mourners attended the funeral of David Hockney Frank Bowling once dressed as a Christmas pudding for a Chelsea Arts Club ball Kawada Kikuji and Iwane Ai offer potent images of a legacy of shattering violence The National Portrait Gallery pulled a Helen Cammock work amid row over Chu…