Venice Biennale

A cacophony and a symphony: the musical Biennale

Venice will ring out to the sound of music this year, as the Biennale features works ranging from orchestras and prisoners’ work songs to hip-hop and wind chimes

Forget the Venice Biennale, what about Expo Milan?

The Lombardy capital creates a feast for the senses—not least a gigantic food-related show

Kenya and Costa Rica pull out of Venice Biennale

<p> Two national pavilions have been withdrawn from the international exhibition, which is due to open to VIPs in less than a week </p>

El Anatsui wins Golden Lion for lifetime achievement

Ghanaian artist will receive award at the Venice Biennale in May

Centenary of Armenian massacre to be marked at Venice Biennale

The Armenian pavilion will include four works by Sarkis, who is also representing Turkey at the event

Anri Sala named France's leading artist (again)

Camille Henrot and Laure Prouvost are fast-risers but only 19 women feature in top 100

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

Art marketarchive

The diffusion of the global art market away from landmark Western art fairs

As art events crop up all over the world, A-list events are no longer an imperative for dealers

All aboard: from the Biennale to Basel

Artists weigh in on exhibiting at both events in quick succession

Art Baselarchive

Art Basel, the final stop that brings art fair marathon to a close

The fair is one of the final Modern and contemporary events this summer

From muted to politically charged: upheaval in the Middle East on show at the Venice Biennale

Nations are taking contrasting approaches to the region’s continuing political and social chaos

Interview with Mike Nelson: On the biennale, Turkey, and being “not quite sure what installation is…”

His work at the Venice Biennale has meant rebuilding an installation inside a rebuilt caravanserai within the British Pavilion

Art Baselarchive

Based in Berlin: the mini-biennial to fill in between Venice Biennale and Art Basel

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

Piranesiarchive

Inside Piranesi’s prisons on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale

An immersive, digital film at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini reimagines the artist’s dark fantasies as if in three dimensions

François Pinault poaches leading Paris fair director

Martin Bethenod to head collector’s Venice venues as disquiet grows over stalled exhibition programme

Watercolours by Cholla the painting horse featured at the Venice Biennale

An equivalent was not to be found at Art Basel, which upheld tradition in its biped-only selection

Interviewarchive

Interview with Robert Storr, director of the 2007 Venice Biennale: "I would recommend dramatically increasing the number of national pavilions"

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

Russian art collective AES+F celebrates 20th anniversary with retrospective

Tate acquires edition of video shown at this year’s Venice Biennale

Art Baselarchive

Is a Venice Biennale presence the key to Art Basel sales?

Some claim that a good reception at the Biennale ensures an artist's name is stamped in market memory

Pinault procures Polke paintings

Billionaire is set to open new Venice museum in 2009

Art Baselarchive

Has Art Basel lost out to Venice and Documenta?

European museums are at the fair, but some dealers say that US institutions are less prominent

Art Baselarchive

Comparing and contrasting art world heavy-weights: Venice Biennale vs. Art Basel

The difference in experiences offered by each of these iconic fairs, and the symbiosis this leads to

Art in the age of global terrorism: censorship at the Venice Biennale

The story of Gregor Schneider’s installation for St Mark’s Square