Biennials & festivals
Moscow Biennale brings hope to grim symbol of Russia’s past
Contemporary art exhibition sends homegrown and foreign artists to country's industrial centres
A grass-roots biennial for the new Ukraine
The School of Kiev opened against the odds to focus on knowledge rather than art and breathe new life into old institutions
What to see during Berlin Art Week
The normally slow-paced city kicks into art overdrive this week with around 100 exhibitions and projects
Ural biennial turns to face the East
The third edition of the contemporary art exhibition in Yekaterinburg has a focus on China, but also reflects the city's industrial history
Futile in the face of so much suffering: Anny Shaw on the Istanbul Biennial
The exhibition opened amid political and humanitarian crises
National identity and post-colonial politics are on the agenda at the 13th Lyons biennial
New commissions include piece by Kader Attia based on Charlie Hebdo attack
Istanbul Biennial commemorates Armenian genocide
Exhibition opens amid rising political tensions in Turkey
Paranoid visions: Simon Hewitt on the Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art
This year’s edition of Momentum explores the anxiety of contemporary life
Edinburgh Art Festival: exploding meteors, Greek drama and dolphin dialogues
Twelfth edition launches this week with more than 40 shows across the city's galleries and museums
Venice court to decide fate of Biennale “mosque”
Art world figures rally for Christoph Büchel’s Icelandic Pavilion project which closed after only two weeks
Artists take a politcal standpoint at Denver's Biennial of the Americas
Robert Longo, Adam Pendleton and Kari Altmann, among others, feature in third edition of the event, which opened this week
Greek museums forced to close as funding runs out
“Cultural institutions on brink,” says curator of main exhibition at Thessaloniki Biennale
Curators of Kiev biennial send Europe back to the class room
Eight-week event is structured around "schools" addressing key social and artistic issues
Greece’s finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to speak at sixth Moscow Biennale
Ten-day event at historic Soviet-era site will include public forums, daily keynote speeches and performances
V&A’s first steps in southern China
London institution introduces contribution to biennial in Shenzhen ahead of 2017 opening of its new gallery in the city
Budapest’s anti-government Off biennial draws 35,000 visitors
Organisers say they started the art festival, which closed today, in direct response to the political interference at Hungary’s cultural institutions
China hosts first photography biennial
Event helps to establish Chongqing as a major Chinese centre of art
Why the show should go on
Last year’s Manifesta also faced calls for a boycott, but a curator’s decision to continue is a difficult one
Kiev Biennial finds a new venue and international support
Second edition to open at the Visual Culture Research Center in September with related projects across Europe, curators say
Azerbaijan’s Venice pavilion will recall long shadow of Soviet era
Artist Hüseyn Haqverdi is creating installation about "lost generation" in gritty outskirts of Baku
Colombian art scene rebounds after civil war
Western dealers and curators look to the South
Young artists get their big moment in the Big Apple at the New Museum's Generational Triennial
The New Museum bets on future stars who deal with our digital world
Discover Basquiat’s art—and his bedtime reading— at Prospect 3
During his lifetime, Jean-Michel Basquiat (right) kept a copy of the book Flash of the Spirit—considered to be one of the seminal works on Afro-Atlantic art and thinking—on his bedside table.
It’s a man’s (art) world—or is it?
Only around 25% of the dealers at Art Basel are female, but women are giving no quarter as the playing field begins to level out
Sharjah looks East and West during 11th biennial
Biennial embraces divergent ways of seeing the world, despite growing censorship in the Gulf
MoMA shows Nixon’s home movies
“It’s a granular look at different types of presidential films of the past century,” says one of the festival’s founders
Documenta sparks “censorship” row: Work by Gregor Schneider withdrawn
Fears that the artist's installation would be associated with the fair led to intervention