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

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

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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

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Colombian art scene rebounds after civil war

Western dealers and curators look to the South

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.

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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

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Sharjah looks East and West during 11th biennial

Biennial embraces divergent ways of seeing the world, despite growing censorship in the Gulf

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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

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Documenta sparks “censorship” row: Work by Gregor Schneider withdrawn

Fears that the artist's installation would be associated with the fair led to intervention