The Buck stopped here

The Buck stopped here is a blog by our contemporary art correspondent Louisa Buck covering the hottest events and must-see exhibitions in London and beyond

The Buck stopped here

Conrad Shawcross channels Brexit in his St Pancras International sculpture

Ikon artists serve up Brexit on a plate

Grayson Perry bites and strokes the hands that feed him at Serpentine preview

An artistic comb-over at Rosemarie Trockel’s Skarstedt show

Pinochet Porn premieres at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

Architectural practice IF_DO show what they can do with Dulwich Picture Gallery’s pavilion

Goldsmiths ushers in its new Centre for Contemporary Art with monstrous belly worship and some searing sounds

Oliver Beer and Andrew Hale get some good vibrations at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Mat Collishaw launches his immersive VR portal into the past at Photo London

Venice diary: Rosy Lee dispenses fortunes at the Hotel Metropole to Ai Weiwei and Gavin Turk

Venice diary: Back to the Future with On Kawara’s One Million Years

Venice diary: Chris Ofili’s poolside magic gives Victoria Miro a grand entrance

Venice diary: riffing on Russia’s revolutionary past at the V-A-C Foundation

Venice diary: New Zealand’s Lisa Reihana makes a grand Biennale entrance

Pop-up love at ZAP shop and sisterly remembrance at Bonhams’s Jackie Collins auction

Exhibitions: from Annette Messager’s uterus wallpaper to David Batchelor’s mists of colour in London, via an African art odyssey in Paris

Thaddaeus Ropac defies the Brexit blues with his new Mayfair gallery

Use your loaf: Gavin Turk’s art is mixed with Dub at Brixton Market

Ashley Bickerton gets ornamentally hysterical with Damien Hirst

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

Mark Wallinger’s Ecce Homo finds new home for Easter outside St Paul’s

Mat Collishaw brings blooms, birds and Merry Old England to Blain Southern

Mixed feelings and a sing-along at Tate Britain’s Queer British Art show

Brexit blues across London’s art scene as Theresa May triggers article 50

London calling: fandom at the Showroom’s fundraising artist dinner

London exhibitions roundup: Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun at the National Portrait Gallery, Russian art at the Royal Academy and more

Howard Hodgkin’s absent friends at the National Portrait Gallery

JW Anderson’s disobedient bodies at Hepworth Wakefield

Women for women at collector Valeria Napoleone’s house

Conrad Shawcross channels Brexit in his St Pancras International sculpture

Ikon artists serve up Brexit on a plate

Grayson Perry bites and strokes the hands that feed him at Serpentine preview

An artistic comb-over at Rosemarie Trockel’s Skarstedt show

Pinochet Porn premieres at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

Architectural practice IF_DO show what they can do with Dulwich Picture Gallery’s pavilion

Goldsmiths ushers in its new Centre for Contemporary Art with monstrous belly worship and some searing sounds

Oliver Beer and Andrew Hale get some good vibrations at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Mat Collishaw launches his immersive VR portal into the past at Photo London

Venice diary: Rosy Lee dispenses fortunes at the Hotel Metropole to Ai Weiwei and Gavin Turk

Venice diary: Back to the Future with On Kawara’s One Million Years

Venice diary: Chris Ofili’s poolside magic gives Victoria Miro a grand entrance

Venice diary: riffing on Russia’s revolutionary past at the V-A-C Foundation

Venice diary: New Zealand’s Lisa Reihana makes a grand Biennale entrance

Pop-up love at ZAP shop and sisterly remembrance at Bonhams’s Jackie Collins auction

Exhibitions: from Annette Messager’s uterus wallpaper to David Batchelor’s mists of colour in London, via an African art odyssey in Paris

Thaddaeus Ropac defies the Brexit blues with his new Mayfair gallery

Use your loaf: Gavin Turk’s art is mixed with Dub at Brixton Market

Ashley Bickerton gets ornamentally hysterical with Damien Hirst

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

Mark Wallinger’s Ecce Homo finds new home for Easter outside St Paul’s

Mat Collishaw brings blooms, birds and Merry Old England to Blain Southern

Mixed feelings and a sing-along at Tate Britain’s Queer British Art show

Brexit blues across London’s art scene as Theresa May triggers article 50

London calling: fandom at the Showroom’s fundraising artist dinner

London exhibitions roundup: Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun at the National Portrait Gallery, Russian art at the Royal Academy and more

Howard Hodgkin’s absent friends at the National Portrait Gallery

JW Anderson’s disobedient bodies at Hepworth Wakefield

Women for women at collector Valeria Napoleone’s house