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
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
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
Beirut-based Christine Tohmé named curator of 13th Sharjah Biennial
Event is due to take place in 2017
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