Exhibitions

Deep cuts: Lucio Fontana gallery show opens with scholarly talk

Leading academics discussed the Italian artist’s radical Argentine roots and less noticed ceramic work

Set fire to the façade: Kelly Grovier on The World Goes Pop at Tate Modern

Beneath Pop art’s kitschy veneer is something starker and more profound

Damien Hirst’s gallery opens in south London without a Hirst in sight

Newport Street Gallery’s lofty spaces are devoted to his friend John Hoyland’s abstract canvases

Is it an auction house, a gallery or a museum?

Phillips to host non-selling Barbara Hepworth show in London next summer, with works on loan from Wakefield and private collections

Southern barbarians rise to fight again

Rediscovered Japanese panels on show after two years of painstaking restoration in specialist studio

Centre Pompidou president promises pop-ups in Korea and China

Exhibitions on the Beat Generation, Beirut and Arte Povera also in the pipeline

Art Licks Weekend: London’s emerging art scene from Peckham to Bethnal Green

A hairdresser’s, a billboard, a café and a mum’s car, are among the unusual locations in this city-wide event

Artist will show where there’s dirt there’s art in Tate Modern

Abraham Cruzvillegas plans to turn Turbine Hall into green space

Exhibition impossible: the shows that can’t be staged

It may be because works are never lent or simply cannot be moved, or because historical figures become unfashionable or controversial, or because living artists prove reluctant, but some of the most cherished ideas of leading curators and directors have never come to fruition—yet<br>

Hockney’s new portraits destined for London and Los Angeles shows

Art-world figures including Larry Gagosian and Benedikt Taschen among sitters

First look at Damien Hirst’s much anticipated Vauxhall gallery space

John Hoyland’s "bold" canvases shine at Newport Street Gallery critics preview, but YBA is a no-show

Performance extravaganza 15 Rooms opens in Shanghai

Event’s first iteration in Asia includes five Chinese artists but no female nudity

Venice big ships photo show to go on after all

Fondo Ambiente Italiano offers its own space in St Mark’s Square after mayor tries to postpone exhibition at Doge’s Palace

Court ruling over vandalised Versailles sculpture angers Anish Kapoor

The artist will reconfigure Dirty Corner but judge says that anti-Semitic slogans painted on the work must be removed immediately

Images of war installed in abandoned Brooklyn naval hospital

An exhibition of battlefield photographs by the German artist and activist Bettina WitteVeen opens to the public this weekend

Prague’s Titian loan show delayed after insurers refuse to ship works

Concerns about the venue’s roof and paperwork delays have postponed the exhibition—insured for €160m—for six weeks

Cult all-female show revisited after 30 years

Sprüth Magers looks back at Eau de Cologne exhibitions, as “question of power has not really changed”

Great art takeaway opens in Paris

Hans-Peter Feldmann, Christian Boltanski and Wolfgang Tillmans among those happy to see works picked up for free in interactive exhibition

How art went Pop in Iran

Tate Modern show uncovers Parviz Tanavoli's folk art-inspired works that raised eyebrows in 1960s Tehran

Comfort blankets: White Cube show examines the politics of quilts and tapestries

New works by contemporary artists will hang alongside textiles by Gee's Bend and Amish women

Sergei Korolev: the unknown winner of the space race

As the countdown to London's Cosmonauts show begins, we speak to the daughter of the rocket scientist who blasted Yuri Gagarin into space