Biennials & festivals
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”
Could new Banksy works help seaside spot become the next UK City of Culture?
Several works recently sprayed in the area by street artist "may be an endorsement", Great Yarmouth Borough Council says
Helsinki’s inaugural biennial goes off with a bang on the former military island of Vallisaari
The layered history and uncertain future of a small island in the Finnish archipelago is used as a microcosm for the world via site specific works by 41 artists
Black Lives Matter resonates throughout Edinburgh Art Festival
From abolitionist films to historical tapestries, the effects of summer 2020's protests can be felt in the Scottish capital
Bienal de São Paulo celebrates its 70th anniversary this month with a podcast series and other programmes
The biennial helped launch the careers of artists like Lygia Pape, Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark
From the fall of Big Ben to the toxic truth about clouds: three to see at Manchester International Festival
As the biennial event opens in northern English city, we pick the best art and shows on view
Momentum biennial in Norway fires curator weeks before opening, prompting artists to withdraw work in solidarity
Organisers of the exhibition in Moss claim curator Théo-Mario Coppola "irreparably damaged" their relationship with the team
Sexism by numbers: Guerrilla Girls ask UK public to send in statistics of females nudes vs female artists at local museums
Feminist protest groups' Male Graze project is part of the contemporary art festival Art Night
Guerrilla Girls: corrupt museum boards, the female nude and NFTs
Plus, Glasgow International festival and Cézanne at MoMA
Venice Biennale 2022 title inspired by Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington
The exhibition’s president and curator also announced the main exhibition’s three themes
Slavery, stray dogs and our shared stomach: Liverpool Biennial questions port city's imperial legacy
After a few false starts, the exhibition's 11th edition is finally fully open—and its reckoning with colonial violence has never been more crucial
Kenyan caves and ancient Mesopotamian boats: Venice Architecture Biennale proposes solutions to impending global housing crisis
Hashim Sarkis's central exhibition touches on the fate of the planet at a time of climate change and Covid-19
After social media backlash, Dark Mofo art festival in Tasmania launches fund for Aboriginal artists
The festival drew criticism last month for an art project that would crowd-source blood from Indigenous and Aboriginal people
The Big Review | Made in LA 2020: A Version
The Los Angeles biennial has been installed but unvisited for six months due to Covid-19 restrictions. Does it still capture our present moment?
FotoFocus’s photography biennial returns to Cincinnati in 2022 with focus on climate change
FotoFocus’s photography biennial returns to Cincinnati in 2022 with focus on climate change
Toronto’s Contact Photography Festival expands its takeover of public spaces
Month-long event to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a series of installations across the city
The 'male graze': Guerrilla Girls to put up billboards across UK reasserting women's place in art history
Anti-discriminative posters are part of festival Art Night 2021, where commissions this year will have a political tone
They see ‘dead people’: billboard works removed from Vancouver photography festival after locals complain
The images of sleeping people were too creepy for many residents, in a city where property values are a major concern
South Korea confronts legacy of 1980 massacre at this year's Gwangju Biennale
The biennial will highlight the conflicting narratives of the deadly uprising that paved the way for democracy
Controversial 'festival of Brexit' moves a step closer with selection of ten winning teams for 2022 event
Turner prizewinning collective Assemble will lead a project at the £120m creativity showcase
Saudi Arabia pushes forward with plans for cultural 'renaissance' with vast light festival full of both local and big-name artists
Agencies seem to be betting that time and increased exposure to the kingdom will wear down Western qualms over its human rights record
New York's Performa festival to be held entirely outdoors this year
Taking pandemic indoor occupancy limits into account, the biennial moves outside of performance spaces
Photographs taken by Nazi camp prisoners remind us of the horrors of the Holocaust in new documentary at Berlin Film Festival
The virtual programme also included features on Tsarist Russian fashion and robot love in the Pergamon Museum
Desert X loses venue for Judy Chicago ‘smoke sculpture’
Following environmental concerns, The Living Desert garden and zoo has pulled out of a planned project with the artist this month
Smoke sculptures, word gardens and a ‘jackrabbit homestead’: Desert X announces artist projects for third edition
Judy Chicago, Oscar Murillo, Nicholas Galanin and others to present works in Southern California's first major art event since the pandemic shutdown last year
Desert X postpones opening amid Covid-19 surge in California
The outdoor festival, due to take over Coachella Valley in February, will now wait until lockdown restrictions are lifted
Philip Tinari appointed curator of inaugural Ad-Diriyah Biennale in Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom’s largest ever contemporary art exhibition will aim to deliver a more "open" image of the country
Biennial on the beach: Barcelona to host 2024 edition of Manifesta
German city lined up for 2026 edition but the next edition will vie with Venice Biennale and Documenta
Venice Biennale pleads with Christoph Büchel to return migrant boat to Sicily
Biennale officials and Sicilian town council call on artist to honour his commitment to return controversial Barca Nostra exhibit after one year
Liverpool Biennial director Fatos Üstek resigns after run-in with board of trustees
Two trustees, the artist Fiona Banner and the art lawyer Jon Sharples, also stepped down in support