Biennials & festivals
Forged in war, revolution and turmoil, works head for Les Rencontres d’Arles
The annual photography festival assembles works that open up doors closed by political turbulence
Edinburgh Festival salutes their 70th year with a giant dragon
Edinburgh comes alive with 45 exhibitions city-wide
Shubbak, London’s Arab arts and culture festival, opens this weekend
This year’s programme promises to look to the future while reflecting on “fragility, resilience and challenges of artists in times of crisis”
Bangkok joins the biennial bandwagon
Thai capital to launch its first ever biennial as government and corporates lend support to contemporary art festival
Northern exposure: artists explore theme of alienation for Nordic biennial
Geographic, political and social alienation all part of mix in event's ninth edition
Documenta 14 in Kassel: an instrument of soft power
Artistic director Adam Szymczyk builds on highly-political themes of earlier opening in Athens
Aros Triennial unveils swathe of new commissions along five kilometres of Danish coastline
Works in the inaugural exhibition include an “anger room” and a safe haven for bees
Liverpool celebrates The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album with a little help from artist friends
Among the 13 new commissions, Judy Chicago has designed a giant psychedelic mural while Jeremy Deller has produced a series of billboards and a secret performance
Documenta & Münster 2017
Our guide to the influential German exhibitions, which only coincide once every ten years
New Orleans biennial Prospect.4 announces artist lineup and focus
With the theme The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, artistic director Trevor Schoonmaker stays in tune with the history of the city, the birthplace of jazz
Sharon Lockhart gives voice to Polish girls and Jewish orphans at the Venice Biennale
For her project in the Polish pavilion, the photographer pays tribute to a pediatrician and writer who pioneered children’s rights
Richard Parry appointed new director of Glasgow International
He takes the reins of the contemporary art festival's eighth edition next year, replacing Sarah McCrory
Terra Foundation reveals ambitious plans for Art Design Chicago in 2018
The year-long multi-venue festival will celebrate the city’s art and design legacy with 25 exhibitions
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art will shine a light on Baltic and Nordic artists
Katerina Gregos is the curator of the new biennial due to open in 2018
No smoke without fire: Documenta 14 unveils first work in Kassel
A smoking chimney billows for the start of the quinquennial event
Triennale di Milano: art effects empathy as forced migration anchors show
The Restless Earth explores the divisive subject currently preoccupying global media
Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: setting sail
Our correspondent, Adrian Dannatt, shares his diary from the expedition to the White Continent
What happens when the identity politics of the Left meet up with the racial isolation of the Right
The controversy over Dana Schutz's Open Casket is like a scene depicted in another of her paintings: a fight in an elevator with worn cables