The Buck stopped here
The Buck stopped here is a weekly blog by our contemporary art correspondent Louisa Buck covering the hottest events and must-see exhibitions in London and beyond
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
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
Venice diary: New Zealand’s Lisa Reihana makes a grand Biennale entrance
A dramatic waterborne entrance at the new Tese dell’Isolotto Arsenale location and more
Pop-up love at ZAP shop and sisterly remembrance at Bonhams’s Jackie Collins auction
When times are lean and public funding is on the dwindle, it makes sense to get collegiate
Exhibitions: from Annette Messager’s uterus wallpaper to David Batchelor’s mists of colour in London, via an African art odyssey in Paris
Our roundup of London shows
Thaddaeus Ropac defies the Brexit blues with his new Mayfair gallery
The grand new premises signal a significant gesture of faith in the capital’s future as a European art hub
Use your loaf: Gavin Turk’s art is mixed with Dub at Brixton Market
Artist is well known for his love of music
First Freelands Award goes to Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery and Jacqueline Donachie
London exhibitions: an electrifying show at the Wellcome Collection, beautiful blue bodies at Stephen Friedman Gallery, and much more
Mixed feelings and a sing-along at Tate Britain’s Queer British Art show
