Jenny Holzer: Words of Conflict
As three new commissions open this year in the UK and Abu Dhabi, the US artist reflects on the continued dominance of war as a theme in her work and says she longs for Trump to be “in the past tense”
A Service of Lament and Thanksgiving in the shadow of Grenfell Tower
Family, friends and fellow artists filled St Mary’s Church in London’s North Kensington to commemorate and celebrate the young artist Khadija Saye
The sun sets on twenty years of art clan gatherings at the Hydra Workshops
There are many outstanding events in the art world but few as eagerly anticipated as the annual gathering on the Greek island of Hydra hosted by Pauline Karpidas
Khadija’s Garden named at PEER
In a sombre but heartwarming ceremony PEER art space named the community garden, trees and seating outside the gallery on Hoxton Street as Khadija’s Garden
Tears, laughter, thunder and lightning to celebrate Jenni Lomax’s 26 years at Camden Arts Centre
Your correspondent rounded off the speeches at the packed party to celebrate Jenni Lomax, who is stepping down as the director of Camden Arts Centre
Emma Hart keeps all lines of communication open at unveiling of her Max Mara show
The winner of the 2015-17 Max Mara Women’s art prize has unveiled Mamma Mia!, a spectacular installation that fills the Whitechapel’s number two gallery
Some vintage posing as the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair comes home
The moveable feast came home to Vauxhall, south London
Parry and thrust and pregnant pauses at unveiling of Frieze Sculpture
The exhibition now runs from 5 July until the closing of the art fair on 8 October
David Lamelas: time zones
The peripatetic Argentinian artist has explored memory, space and time in works made across the world. In September, his first full career survey opens in Los Angeles as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative
Serpentine Summer Party goes with a swing and a chill
New CEO Yana Peel partnered up with Chanel
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
Architectural practice IF_DO show what they can do with Dulwich Picture Gallery’s pavilion
Move over Serpentine, there’s a new gallery pavilion in town
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
Oliver Beer and Andrew Hale get some good vibrations at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Dinner celebrated new London gallery
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