Epic list-making at Gagosian and a sombre investigation of society at the Lisson

In the meantime, ignore false reports of a Britart movie

Disillusioned and sick of heavy-handed art that tries to shock, the artist has now turned to kitsch and sentimental themes

Meanwhile, Tracey Emin pushes up the bids in Islington, and there are rumblings at the Royal Academy

The relationship between the generic and the individual is at the heart of Opie’s digitally produced work

Increased attendance, sales, and quality marks a good year for the fair

Cities provide the context for many of the 20th century’s most important innovations, but are also environments in which literature, music, art and thought merge, split or collide with one another. Tate Modern’s first major exhibition since opening ambitiously comprises nine sections, 13 curators and 1,500 works spread over two floors. The display combines the scale and global scope of an international biennial with the historical perspective of art’s most varied century

Louisa Buck’s choice of London contemporary galleries

Appropriation, whimsy, balletomania, and anglophilia all go into Kilimnik’s installations

The artist talks about truncation in art and life as his show opens at White Cube2

Dresdeners at White Cube2, Anselm Kiefer at D’Offay

Whitechapel curator goes .com, more power into art and Juan Muñoz is the next artist for Tate Modern

Iconic interiors at Gagosian, pucker and slide at Mummery, some great British grub at Holdsworth, painterly lavatory walls at Anthony Reynolds, strange girlish doodles at Cabinet, while Vic Reeves turns artist at Percy Miller

UK Artist Q&A

Tate Modern continues to dominate the London scene, but gets spread around in more ways than it bargained for

Meanwhile there is clutter in the Cabinet, recent Kossoffs at Annely Juda, and randomised exactitude at Corvi-Mora

Leaving an after-Tate

Sadie Coles in an eastward position, the Lisson and Tim Taylor times two, photography at Frith Street and Maureen Paley, plus powerful juju at Anthony Reynolds

Andrew Mummery powers up in a new gallery, Victoria Miro provides a sneak preview of her new space , and a Volkswagen van invades a front room in Camberwell

The number two position at Tate Modern might satisfy most curators but Blazwick has given it up to direct the Whitechapel Art Gallery

Victoria Miro is moving to a nice area and Gagosian is heading for Heddon Street

“A new departure, not a bitter divorce.”

Gagosian opens in London, Art goes underground in Waterloo and at home in Camberwell

Maurizio Cattelan kicks out at English football, Paolini frames “the author” at the Lisson Gallery and Halley sticks to paint

The new sole executor of Bacon's estate talks in his first public interview about the teams of lawyers now working to see that the artist’s beneficiary, John Edwards, receives precisely what Francis intended him to receive. And that is everything

Is the gift an act of virtuous self-regard?

Tony Cragg goes wild at the Lisson, Emily Tsingou gets repetitive and Manchot’s middle-aged mum is at Zelda Cheatle

London artists Tracey Emin, Gary Hume and Gillian Wearing play bit-parts

The heir to the British painter’s works changes galleries from Marlborough to Tony Shafrazi