Louisa Buck

Louisa Buck is the contemporary art correspondent at The Art Newspaper

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Mark Leckey offers a cathartic shout-out at Cubitt gallery

For his new show Leckey lead a mass rendition of a sound piece that forms a key element of his new installation

Conrad Shawcross channels Brexit in his St Pancras International sculpture

The official take is that sculpture is “a celebration of mechanics and engineering”

Ikon artists serve up Brexit on a plate

Artist-designed fundraising dinner for the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham coincided with the first day of Brexit negotiations

Venice Biennale: triumphs and talking points

Leading figures give their impressions of Christine Macel’s main show, Viva Arte Viva, and their pick of the national pavilions

Grayson Perry bites and strokes the hands that feed him at Serpentine preview

Teasingly-titled show, The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! opened this week

An artistic comb-over at Rosemarie Trockel’s Skarstedt show

Major Greek collection had agreed to loan the artist’s rarely seen Untitled (1999)

Pinochet Porn premieres at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

Ellen Cantor worked on experimental feature-length film right up to her death from cancer in 2013

Goldsmiths ushers in its new Centre for Contemporary Art with monstrous belly worship and some searing sounds

The purpose of the evening was to introduce—and drum up support for—the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art

Mat Collishaw launches his immersive VR portal into the past at Photo London

Most up-to-date photographic technologies come together to uncanny effect in Thresholds

Venice diary: Rosy Lee dispenses fortunes at the Hotel Metropole to Ai Weiwei and Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk has installed his mechanical fortune-telling sculpture Rosy Lee and more

Venice diary: riffing on Russia’s revolutionary past at the V-A-C Foundation

Leonid Mikhelson’s foundation launched its new Venetian home in the Palazzo delle Zattere

Venice diary: New Zealand’s Lisa Reihana makes a grand Biennale entrance

A dramatic waterborne entrance at the new Tese dell’Isolotto Arsenale location and more

Phyllida Barlow: folly in the British pavilion

The sculptor has chosen Folly as an ambiguous title and taken a typically bold and absurd approach to her work for the British pavilion, which is—however obliquely—mindful of the UK’s Brexit vote

Pop-up love at ZAP shop and sisterly remembrance at Bonhams’s Jackie Collins auction

When times are lean and public funding is on the dwindle, it makes sense to get collegiate

Thaddaeus Ropac defies the Brexit blues with his new Mayfair gallery

The grand new premises signal a significant gesture of faith in the capital’s future as a European art hub

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Cerith Wyn Evans: Light Fantastic

As the Welsh artist fills Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries, ahead of showing in Venice and Münster later in the year, he talks about his varied inspirations, from Duchamp to Japanese Noh theatre