Biennials & festivals
Cincinnati’s FotoFocus Biennial traces global issues, from climate change to discrimination
The 2022 edition of the largest photography biennial in the US includes over 100 projects that explore the theme of “world record”
Art in a radish field: Mexico's Hacer Noche festival invites engagement in unusual locations
Barcelona-based curator and museum director Elvira Dyangani Ose has organised the second edition of the city-wide show in Oaxaca
The 17th Istanbul Biennial finds novel ways to have difficult conversations
Against the constraints imposed by Covid-19 and Turkey’s repressive social climate, the influential biennial obliquely takes up thorny topics and engages with the city’s alternative spaces
Helsinki’s Flow Festival is a pioneering carbon neutral event—but its art shows get lost in the decor
Experiential sound and light works included in the music festival are so immersive that they are almost hard to find
Manifesta director says the biennial should be held in Ukraine: here are five reasons why it is a good idea
The 2028 edition of the nomadic European exhibition would strengthen the country's cultural scene
From French Impressionist masterworks to dancing party people: the must-see exhibitions at Edinburgh Art Festival
The Scottish visual arts platform includes more than 35 shows this year throughout the capital
A 'revolt against the cult of the male genius': the must-see photographs at Rencontres d’Arles
France's historic photography festival gives top billing to the unseen, unrecognised and repressed, with a headline show dedicated to dissident feminist artists, many of whom worked behind the Iron Curtain
Move aside Paul McCartney! Ai Weiwei and Ai-Da the robot to debut work at this year's Glastonbury Festival in England
At the Somerset music event, the Chinese dissident artist is screening a film about his family's history as prisoners of conscience
What is in the largest ever Documenta exhibition? No one is quite sure
The 15th edition of Documenta will be a sprawling show with around 1,500 participants—and it is already embroiled in a scandal before it has even started
A bold Berlin Biennale proves it is not afraid to address some of Germany's most charged issues: colonialism, climate change and Israel
The exhibition's 12th edition, curated by artist Kader Attia, is perhaps its most explicitly political to date
Crystal Bridges Museum partners with producers of White House Easter Egg Roll who are launching art and music festival
The new festival will open in September with a musical performance by the War on Drugs and a hot air balloon launch by Doug Aitken
Review: Does the Whitney Biennial really reflect the world today?
Plus, the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories opens in Washington and Raphael's late self-portrait at London's National Gallery
Flamenco, floating stages and a Stravinsky revival: programme for Venice's 2022 dance biennial revealed
Biennale Danza director Wayne McGregor has given the 16th international festival of contemporary dance the title of "Boundary-less" to reflect the current state of global flux
London's Brent Biennial to explore immigrant, feminist and queer traditions
North-west London borough of Brent will host 12 artists’ projects in 12 different venues and public spaces
How Donatello changed art history forever
Plus, the Biennale of Sydney looks at the rights of rivers and Eduardo Navarro’s seed installation opens in London
Scathing UK parliament report deems £120m post-Brexit culture festival Unboxed an 'irresponsible use of public money'
But UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport defends the nationwide initiative, saying that it will help create jobs
Ukrainian-born artist Stanislava Pinchuk unveils poignant work on the refugee experience at the Adelaide Biennial
Marble work, which intertwines texts from Homer's Odyssey with leaked documents on Australia’s offshore refugee detention centres, touches on the "universal experience of having to leave home through turmoil"
UK's £120m post-Brexit culture festival launches at last, lighting up Scotland cathedral
Government-funded initiative Unboxed costs £120m and will include an oil rig installation from the North Sea
Venice Biennale 2022: all the national pavilions, artists and curators
The latest details about the key participants of the 59th International Art Exhibition
Accessible to all or elitist artwashing? Desert X opens second Saudi Arabia edition
The open air exhibition in the ancient heritage region AlUla spearheads the Middle Eastern nation's attempt at rapid cultural transformation in line with government's 2030 goals
The Year Ahead: the best exhibitions to look forward to in 2022
Plus, who will be the art market’s winners and losers?
The most exciting exhibitions around the world
We take a look at the must-see exhibitions in 2022, including the return of the Venice Biennale and Documenta, blockbuster shows of Donatello and Cézanne, and a sculpture festival for the Qatar World Cup
Saudi Arabia's cultural scene is in a moment of decisive shift
The inaugural Diriyah Biennale and the opening of Hayy Jameel are the latest in a series of initiatives helping the kingdom emerge from artistic isolation
As details of the £120m 'Brexit Festival' emerge, will it inspire the UK, or be the Johnson government‘s Millennium Dome?
Unboxed promises plenty of "immersion". But in what, exactly?
Bradford, Southampton and the county of Cornwall make the UK City of Culture 2025 longlist
But Banksy ‘spraycation’ towns are eliminated from the competition
Artists announced for Saudi Arabia's contemporary art biennial
Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale is part of a drive to promote the cultural credentials of the middle Eastern kingdom
At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the city becomes a community landscape
Projects and site-specific installations have been brought into six neigbourhoods, taking local needs into account
Prospect New Orleans to stagger openings and delay gala after Hurricane Ida
The event, launched in response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, has been impacted by another major climate disaster
São Paulo Bienal echoes the political polarisation in Brazil
The 34th edition of the second longest-running international exhibition reflects on past and present political and social tensions
Artist creates ‘slave ship’ installation in Lisbon to spark debate around Portugal’s history of colonialism
The work by Grada Kilomba is part of the Biennial of Contemporary Art and aims to counter the “politics of erasure”