Biennials & festivals
Barbara Kruger to stage first live performance for New York’s Performa festival
The work Untitled (The Drop) will take place on three consecutive Thursdays in November
The Russian Revolution and village life
International artists consider the impact of the Revolution on rural communities in country’s longest-running biennial
Big names bring Moscow biennial back from the brink
Björk and Olafur Eliasson headline event that nearly didn’t happen
Locals fight to retain Eisenman fountain following Sculpture Projects Münster
Residents are working with artist to create a more durable version of the vandalised work
Marrakech Biennale cancelled due to lack of funds
Seventh edition had been scheduled for February 2018
Four things to see during the Chicago Architecture Biennial
From imaginative scale models to a pop-up ‘freak’ show, we pick the must see projects around the city
What to see (and hear) at the 14th Biennale de Lyon
From a live band that are ‘The Art’ to dripping taps and nuclear explosions, this edition of the biennial is making a racket
Rashaad Newsome leads the parade at Detroit light art festival
And the artist gives a hint of his upcoming performance at the Park Avenue Armory
What to see at Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
Our Los Angeles correspondent Jori Finkel shares the shows that gave her a reason to linger during the opening week of the city-wide art festival
Rehab and reuse top of agenda at Chicago Architecture Biennial
The second edition promises visionary solutions and a few surprises
Human rights at the heart of Gothenburg biennial
Swedish festival looks at orthodoxy’s chains from mixed race asylum seekers to a film about a plan to set up a separatist gay community in California in 1970
Istanbul Biennial brings to light artist-run initiatives springing up across the Turkish city
Curators Elmgreen & Dragset say that press reports give wrong impression of the buzzing local scene
Documenta faces yawning €7m deficit, seeks financial help
Kassel city and the state of Hesse pledge to secure long-term liquidity
New York’s Performa festival announces new commissions by Barbara Kruger
The artist will also design marketing materials for the biennial of performance art
Five works to see at the Lofoten Islands International Art Festival
The remote fishing village of Henningsvær hosts this year's edition of the peripatetic event
Five works to see at the Folkestone Triennial
Public art exhibition includes a giant jelly mould, minarets and a lightbulb moment
Setback for Lahore Biennale as artistic director Rashid Rana quits
Inaugural edition of Pakistan’s biggest ever contemporary show has now been postponed until next year
Boom and bust in Kassel and Athens
Documenta 14 sets itself in opposition to neoliberalism and the art market — but will it pave the way to greater excess?
City-wide festival aims to revive Venice’s glass industry
Inaugural Venice Glass Week will include more than 140 exhibitions on the delicate medium
Folkestone Triennial returns to the Kentish coast
The town has been slowly blossoming into a hub for art since the establishment of the triennial, and the fourth edition hopes to continue this trend
New UK sculpture triennial gains momentum for 2019 opening
Yorkshire Sculpture International exhibition at four partner venues secures Arts Council backing
BienalSur—a biennial without borders—launches this autumn
The show, centred in Buenos Aires but with projects around the world, aims to rethink the current biennial format
Edinburgh Art Festival: artists look to Maori traditions, 19th-century botany and jellyfish
Jupiter Artland’s new permanent piece by Pablo Bronstein joins two ten-metre-high pavilions in a Gothic and Chinoiserie style
The arts festival erupting in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
Walk & Talk includes exhibitions and performances on the Portuguese volcanic islands of the Azores
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





























