Contemporary art
How to survive the Venice Biennale, according to the art world
It may be the most prestigious art event in the world, but be warned—it is also the most gruelling
National pride, national shame and the ‘post-national’: the question of identity at the Venice Biennale
National pavilions in Venice have long been criticised as anachronistic. But for nations newer to the event, such quibbling can seem like a luxury
Ralph Rugoff on his Venice Biennale concept. Plus, Bernar Venet and Berlin Gallery Weekend
The artistic director reveals his plans and the French artist discusses his biggest motivation for making art
Berlin collector turns Nazi-era Luftwaffe building into home for video art
Software entrepreneur Markus Hannebauer opens Fluentum to the public with Dutch artist Guido van der Werve
Turner Prize nominees give 'voice to the marginalised’
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani have been shortlisted for this year’s award
Too white and male? Not for long. Berlin Gallery Weekend director responds to criticism over lack of female artists
Maike Cruse says gender split at event will hopefully diminish in the next five years as many emerging artists are female
Video of Polish artist Natalia LL eating a banana temporarily goes back on show after protests over museum’s ‘censorship’
Almost 1,000 people attended banana-eating demonstration outside Warsaw’s National Museum yesterday
Ralph Rugoff on why the 2019 Venice Biennale has a 'split personality'
The artistic director speaks to The Art Newspaper as he puts the finishing touches to the exhibition that he has divided between the Arsenale and Giardini’s central pavilion
Fashion meets art as Casa Loewe launches on New Bond Street
Museum directors mixed with fashionistas last night
Iranian works will abound at the Venice Biennale despite US sanctions
Complications around shipping and insurance have not stopped artists and curators from the country to make their presence felt at this year's edition
NADA to launch Chicago fair in September
After cancelling its New York event, the organisation's new Chicago Invitational will feature around 40 galleries in the historic Chicago Athletic Association
Bob and Roberta Smith takes council sell-off protest to the Royal Academy
The artist’s work submitted to the Summer Show denounces Hertfordshire’s decision to auction more than 400 works
Uzbekistan opens new art centre to boost 'undeveloped' local scene
Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is offering curatorial expertise as part of growing network of partnerships with post-Soviet countries
Ai Weiwei denies his porcelain works borrow from Lebanese artist's prize-winning vases
Raed Yassin says there are "striking similarities" between his ceramic series on the Lebanese civil war and Ai's pieces on the Syrian war and refugee crisis
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is 'on track, on budget', director Richard Armstrong says
Construction on the long-delayed project is expected to take three to four years
Honey I shrunk the art: the ultimate alternative biennial opens in Los Angeles
Dollhouse-sized paintings and installations replace big artistic statements and egos
Tributes to Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, giant of contemporary Iranian art
Curators and artists, including Shirin Neshat, remember the artist who called her geometric mirror works “signs of light and life”
Indigenous and First Nation artists to take centre stage at next Biennale of Sydney
Artistic director Brook Andrew aims to counter the dominance of Northern American and European narratives
How to future-proof a work of art that will not be completed for 100 years
As Katie Paterson's sand castle project goes on tour, we look at how her Future Library is being made to outlive the artist
The best of Buenos Aires beyond arteBA
Five shows to see during the city's Semana del Arte
Cuban galleries rebound as Havana Biennial opens
Dealers mount work that responds to political tensions while noting art is a 'difficult business' in Havana
Okwui Enwezor was one of the most influential curators in history
The Art Newspaper's features editor Ben Luke pays tribute
Hans Ulrich Obrist remembers his friend Okwui Enwezor
Many of Enwezor's ideas "are more relevant today than ever before", Obrist says
Lismore Castle serves up a rich palimpsest of themes for new show
Irish home of the Dukes of Devonshire is grand backdrop to works by Martine Syms, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Nicole Eisenman, among others
Wallinger's upside-down globe outside LSE angers Chinese students for portraying Taiwan as an independent state
British artist says colouring Taiwan differently from China was his "error"
Bumper haul of 26 acquisitions head to UK's regional contemporary art galleries
Fig-futures project brings works worth £80,000 to four venues
Topping a million visitors: how MCA Australia broadened the appeal of contemporary art
With more than a million people through the doors annually since 2015, the museum is a case study in how to expand audiences
German art collective under investigation by state prosecutor
Zentrum für politische Schönheit sees artistic freedom under attack
Do Ho Suh has 2018's most popular contemporary art show, with 1.1 million visitors
Free exhibition of his installations at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC tops our Art's Most Popular survey
In pictures: hanging ghost ships and upside-down architecture at Art Basel in Hong Kong
Curator Alexie Glass-Kantor talks us through her selection of large-scale works at the fair this year





























