Biennials & festivals
Artists Elmgreen & Dragset turn curators, taking on the 15th Istanbul Biennial
Pair hint that their presentation in Turkey will be political and provocative
Art among the penguins: inaugural Antarctic Biennale to launch next year
Artists will create works on a 12-day expedition to the South Pole
Glasgow International festival tackles demise of UK's once-great, heavy industries
As Welsh steelworkers in Port Talbot await fate of giant steelworks, do the arts have anything to offer?<br>
French novelist Michel Houellebecq to undergo medical exam at Manifesta
Provocative writer will also shows works at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris this summer
Cairo art festival opens amid cultural clampdown
Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival is taking place in Egyptian capital but also Beirut
Lucky number 13: Edinburgh Art Festival announces packed programme
The city will be taken over this summer by exhibitions and artist projects, including new work by Damián Ortega and Christian Boltanski
Call to action at the heart of sixth Marrakech Biennale
Palestinian curator’s ‘living art’ project draws on colonialism, conflict and activism
Fourth edition of New Orleans’ Prospect triennial to focus on colonialism in the ‘global south’
The international contemporary art exhibition will also coincide with the port city’s 300th anniversary
Can a biennial really prosper in Pakistan?
The Lahore Biennale is due to launch next year amid security issues and a meagre art scene
Opera-loving artist Raqib Shaw to show new paintings at Glyndebourne
Artist is the second to be selected for White Cube pop-up gallery at the music festival
Gillian Wearing asks for a peek through people’s windows
The UK artist will unveil her new film project, including submissions from the public, at the House festival in Brighton
Turkey’s answer to Burning Man takes shape in remote Cappadocia region
Cappadox contemporary art festival to include site-specific works by 15 artists, focusing on tourism in the country’s centre
Beyoncé, Jay Z and sophisticated scratch-and-sniff at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial
Scratch videos, film and sound works to explode across Sheffield this spring
Art festival takes place in electricity substations, defunct pubs and a former funeral parlour
Heritage lost: how two art and design exhibitions frame southern China’s transformation
Lisa Movius on the Guangzhou Triennial, Asia Biennial and Shenzhen Urban Biennale
Paris photography biennial Photoquai cancelled
The event, organised by the Musée du Quai Branly, highlighted contemporary photography of Africa and Asia
Three good reasons why Brisbane’s Asia Pacific Triennial is the tops
No commercial influence, no contemporary-art imperialism and no diva curator
A return to the object: Biennale de Montréal announces theme for 2016 edition
While the 2014 event centred on socially engaged work, this year’s exhibition will look at aesthetics and materiality
Art among the cacti: recurring exhibition to launch in the Southern Californian desert
Site-specific works will be dotted around Coachella Valley for the new Desert X show
The Year Ahead: international biennials in 2016
The top art, design and architecture exhibitions around the world this year
Swiss scholar Corinne Diserens to curate Taipei Biennial
Tenth edition will focus on the role of museums and institutional bureaucracy
São Paulo Bienal takes on uncertain times for 2016 edition
Exhibition theme is particularly apt as Brazil faces corruption scandals and severe recession
Venice Biennale bows out with more than half a million visitors
56th edition drew record crowds over a longer period
Lyons light festival cancelled in wake of Paris attacks
Candlelight ceremony will continue in honour of terror victims
Good things come out of Vienna Art Week
The 11th edition’s theme Creating Common Good could be a description for the city-wide festival, which takes a socially engaged angle this year
Migration and climate change the focus of Palermo-based Manifesta in 2018
City’s outspoken mayor is backing the biennial, which could transform the island’s identity
Over 35s not allowed: Moscow Biennale for Young Art turns to emerging curators
Curator Nadim Samman will choose participating artists through a “transparent” selection procedure
New home, new blood: Whitney appoints young curators for 2017 biennial
Thirty-somethings Christopher Y Lew and Mia Locks will lead a curatorial team that looks beyond the New York scene and institutional shows
Performa’s ten-year balancing act
Latest edition of performance art biennial launches this month, bringing new works to venues across New York