Western dealers and curators look to the South

The New Museum bets on future stars who deal with our digital world

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.

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

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

“It’s a granular look at different types of presidential films of the past century,” says one of the festival’s founders

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

Big excitement over bigger and bigger works

This survey of 80 artists will prevent boredom from setting in as collectors are made to wait for the next superfair

Conflict between government and arts organisers at Shanghai World Expo

Interesting work, relaxed censorship and sheer scale belie tensions in joint Hong Kong-Shenzhen project

The Turkish capital has curators, collectors and galleries⁠—if the government pitches in, it could become the leading destination for contemporary art in the Middle and Near East

Benin waited more than 50 years since its independence for a biennial, and now it has two

In the second part of our interview with Storr, he considers the question of how to make the historic event truly representative of today’s global art world

The State Department wants to promote programmes in the Muslim world

Controversy over Venice Cube project

Less circus, more focus at the Venice Biennale

Long live the united nations of the arts?

Our overview also reveals the highs and lows of this year's biennale, which draws heavily on Scandinavian artists and pays tribute to grand masters Serra, Beuys, Twombly and Richter

Pigs not caught in flagrante delicto and women wrestling with balloons are just some of the delights at this multi-venue biennale curated by Rosa Martínez

The pull of past traditions is juxtaposed with the push of digital innovations

The Houston international photographic biennial is the only event of its kind in the US

The Biennale director who launched the “Aperto” section for young artists is now replacing it with “d’Apertutto” as the theme of Biennale ‘99

A history of how Documenta has changed with the times