Exhibitions
Manchester show is a taster of what’s to come at Hong Kong’s vast M+ museum
The selection of 80 works is a peek at the Swiss collector Uli Sigg’s comprehensive collection of contemporary Chinese art
British Museum’s ivory icons denied US entry for loan show
The US Fish and Wildlife Service blocked the importation of the Byzantine objects before they ever left the UK
The Buck Stopped Here: Beverly Hills John strolls into Mayfair with an explicit buggy and a Botoxed Lassie
You can never have too much of a good thing
Certain installations have star status—shown in multiple museums, they have often attracted long queues. But what makes them so compelling?
Damien Hirst to open London space in October
Inaugural exhibition at Newport Street Gallery will be solo show for British artist John Hoyland
There’s something about Amber
Exhibition celebrates film and photography collective in Newcastle that impressed Henri Cartier-Bresson with its record of life up north
Berlin’s summer of performance and film art starts this weekend
From the Foreign Affairs festival to commercial gallery shows, time-based art can be found all over the German city
Greece’s finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to speak at sixth Moscow Biennale
Ten-day event at historic Soviet-era site will include public forums, daily keynote speeches and performances
V&A’s first steps in southern China
London institution introduces contribution to biennial in Shenzhen ahead of 2017 opening of its new gallery in the city
Chinese billionaire collector partners with Institute of Contemporary Arts in London
Adrian Cheng will support exhibitions by emerging Chinese artists at the institution
The Buck Stopped Here: Hepworth's sculptures, Connor's explosions, Yiadom-Boakye's canvases and the RA's annual summer extravaganza
“I don’t have the illusion that art will save lives or diminish violence”
Doris Salcedo’s timely retrospective remembers victims of political violence
Herzog & de Meuron to redevelop Berlin’s Tacheles art squat
German capital’s rapid gentrification continues
Joana Vasconcelos creates new work for selling show at Phillips London
Auction house is contributing towards the artist’s production costs
Artangel’s newest commission gives a glimpse into former BBC headquarters
Ben Rivers’s cinematic installation is screened in salvaged film sets, scenery and prop workshops
National Gallery Singapore to open with a little help from the Pompidou
Paris institution will co-organise the inaugural exhibition at the museum next year, expanding its empire in Asia
Swiss collector’s Chinese art to go on show in Bern
Two museum exhibitions will feature works that Uli Sigg has acquired since 2005
Don’t look hard: Matthew Collings on Francis Bacon and the Masters
Bacon’s work has relationships with the Masters of art history, but the likenesses are often fugitive
The generation game: the women behind the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation
Around 300 pieces from the Swiss organisation's sizeable art collection is on display at the Schaulager
Benin artist to embark on journey to Jerusalem
Georges Adéagbo is due to have a show at the Israel Museum in January 2016
Views from the Venice Biennale
Five major art-world figures give their verdicts on Okwui Enwezor’s All the World’s Futures exhibition, as well as the national pavilions and other shows
Afghan street artist who fled Taliban gets first solo show in UK
Malina Suliman taught young people how to spray-paint in Kabul
Westward, ho! San Francisco show to explore Ruscha's vision of the American frontier
Cars, cowboys and Hollywood shape exhibitition planned for 2016 at the De Young
Our pick of the best shows to see during Art Basel
Shows worth checking out around the Swiss city next week
Martin Luther thrives in Saxony
Donald Lee recommends the Luther exhibition in Torgau about the Reformer’s relationships with the German princes