Biennials & festivals

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

Chicago hits an architectural high

Our pick of the inaugural biennial, which opened to towering expectations

Sydney Biennale takes on race issues with tent embassy

Richard Bell’s homage to the 1972 Aboriginal protest site will host speakers from black activist groups

Why the Dhaka Art Summit only lasts for four days

Founders explain that $2m production costs and import fees limit the length of ‘the world’s largest non-commercial platform for South Asian art’

Artists should be ‘feared by the powerful’, says former Greek finance minister

In his keynote speech at the Moscow Biennale, Yanis Varoufakis discussed the perils of cultural collapse and why the euro is doomed—from an artistic standpoint

Art Licks Weekend: London’s emerging art scene from Peckham to Bethnal Green

A hairdresser’s, a billboard, a café and a mum’s car, are among the unusual locations in this city-wide event

Istanbul biennial confronts Armenian genocide

Curator chooses work directly referring to deaths and deportation

Lyons is all about the big issues of modern life

Immigration, consumerism and the downside of the digital revolution are among the topical themes of the 13th biennial

Artists to work with Zurich’s workforce for Manifesta 2016

Christian Jankowski’s plans for the roving European biennial include a floating water venue, projects with local tradesmen and sumptuous Swiss dishes