Venice Biennale
Why La Serenissima is painting’s spiritual home
These five masterpieces, still in the Venetian spaces they originally filled, mark a watershed in Western painting
Art hewn from horror and despair
Matching the main exhibition’s political outlook, a host of pavilions across Venice are addressing their countries’ troubled past and present
Culture clash: how Venice battled to keep the Modernists out
The Biennale is celebrated for a collision of the contemporary and the historical, but newer architecture remains hidden behind the city’s venerable walls
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 Two national pavilions have been withdrawn from the international exhibition, which is due to open to VIPs in less than a week 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
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 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
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
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
Which artists were present at the Venice Biennale as well as Art Basel '10?
A second opportunity to buy
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
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