Exhibitions

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

Futile in the face of so much suffering: Anny Shaw on the Istanbul Biennial

The exhibition opened amid political and humanitarian crises

Back to school: top seven gallery shows in New York this week

From Anne Truitt to Christian Marclay, these are the exhibitions you won’t want to miss

Back to school: top six gallery shows in London this week

William Kentridge's marching refugees, Luc Tuymans's abstract friends and possibly the capital's tiniest show

Anish Kapoor condemns racist attack on Versailles sculpture

<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">French culture minister voices support for artist determined to fight bigotry</span><br>

Shanghai welcomes largest Rain Room so far

Installation is a hit at Yuz Museum but Random International surprised to discover imitation already open