Damien Hirst
That's right. Lord Damien of Hirst has a new exhibition at the White Cube. And just for a change, it's both grand and bloody. The new Fact and Biopsy Paintings explore birth and death in all Hirst’s predictably magnificent brutality, and there are seven more Natural History pieces. What, after all, is a Hirst exhibition without a spot of bisection? Other highlights include a series of typically bovinist examinations of Christian iconography (not one for the vegan Catholics among you), but the pièce de résistance must be For the Love of God: a life-size platinum human skull, encrusted with 8,601 diamonds, at a massive 1,106.18 carats.

Free Range
This weekend marks the beginning of the seventh annual Free Range art and design show at the Old Truman Brewery. With over 2,500 graduates and 100,000 expected visitors, it has established itself over the years as one of the largest and best events of its kind, providing budding designers and artists the opportunity to showcase their work to both the public and potential employers alike. Addressing the sense of organizational confusion that has at times afflicted the show, this year's offerings are arranged by genre, with designers nabbing the first week, followed by photographers, artists, and miscellaneous unclassifiables respectively taking weekly slots till it all wraps up on July 23.

Jeff Koons
Inflatable monkeys, geisha, birds and steam trains, all depicted massively in jumbled, bright, vivid colours. Isn't it a pleasure when artists inject some bloody fun into their explorations? In Hulk Elvis, Koons' latest exhibition, he takes essentially familiar objects from the media-drenched everyday, then splices, inflates, confuses and abstracts them, rendering the results in visceral, playful technicolour. At times overwhelming, always unrelenting, his enormous pop-ish paintings hum with the volatility of the postmodern world, etching themselves onto your brain to leave swirling, dazzling after-images that are hard to shake.