Reclamation for the nation ... Peter Saville, Hayes Davidson and Herzog & de Meuron at the Tanks: Art in Action festival, Tate Modern, London
Exhibition of the week: The Tanks
What makes the art of today different from the art of 1912? One answer is: the kinds of space in which it is shown. Since the 1960s, reclaimed industrial space has replaced traditional galleries as the chosen theatre of avant-garde art. It began with artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol taking over old factories in downtown Manhattan. It has gone on to mean sculptors working in steel yards , or museums converting old docks. Art students in Glasgow this summer showed degree work in a venue called the Glue Factory that is … an old glue factory.
Minimalist art, with its use of industrial materials and setting out of objects in potentially limitless arrays, started in the 1960s and was made for warehouses. This interaction between space and style has shaped the art of today.
Tate Modern, already one of the world's most exciting reclaimed buildings, this summer moves into newly converted regions of its former power station. The Tanks will be a venue for live art, another form for which industrial spaces seem made. The opening season is about to start. It is certain to be spectacular.
• Tate Modern, London SE1, opening festival from 18 July to 28 October
Shakespeare: Staging the World
The Italian Renaissance had Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. We had Shakespeare. His plays have influenced art as they have influenced everything else.
• British Museum, London WC1, from 19 July to 25 November
Sarah Lucas
Trenchant and memorable sculptor whose art gets better and better.
• Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, from 19 July to 21 October
Olivia Plender
Installations that comment on the history of education.
• Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, from 14 July to 9 September
Expanding Horizons
A rare sighting of the panoramic landscape paintings of Giovanni Battista Lusieri (1754–1821).
• Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, until 28 October
Joseph with Jacob in Egypt, by Pontormo, c1515-18. Photograph: The National Gallery Pontormo's colours – pale yet bright, pastel yet fiery, in violet and rose hues – give this painting an ethereal poetry. It is a fantastic scene, with flamboyant imaginary architecture, sensual statues and tiny people as earthen and vulnerable as Bruegel peasants. Pontormo is a delicate visionary.
• National Gallery, London WC2
Image of the week
Titian's Venus and Adonis at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, has been marvellously restored – after sitting in storage since the early 20th century What we learned this week
That the Guardian is telling the story of British art all summer – and we want your top British artwork lists, too
That the National Gallery has put on a peep show
How to make sculpture with live bees
Why BMW's art cars have no va-va-voom any more
That there will be a documentary about a legendary graffiti crew called DDS
How Olafur Eliasson's solar lamps could help people who live off the electricity grid
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