Venice Biennale

A welcome surprise: Okwui Enwezor's Biennale 'forefronts aesthetics as well as theory'

Critic Franco Fanelli finds All the World's Futures an enticing mix of drama and utopia<br>

Art presented as an affirmation of life in Armenian pavilion

Centenary of Armenian massacre marked in Venice Biennale presentation

Who's bankrolling the Venice Biennale?

Putting on an event of this size is an expensive business—and increasingly it is dealers, collectors and foundations that are stumping up

Argentina and the common cause of the oppressed

Exhibition refers not only to the oppressive authorities of 1970s Argentina, but to torturers and their apologists around the world

Five of the best exhibitions around Venice

Shows worth checking out beyond the Arsenale and Giardini<br>

Iraq War and rise of Islamic State under scrutiny in the Iraq Pavilion

Curator says the show is made in response to the “manifest impossibility of making art in the country”

Actions speak louder than words in the Slovenian Pavilion

The artist senses a pressing need to do something… but it's up to the audience to do it

Sinister sprites and hallucinatory reflections haunt Joan Jonas's US Pavilion

Artist transforms the space into an opulent environment, with readings from Nova Scotian ghost stories

India and Pakistan’s historic Biennale collaboration

The historically-conflicting nations come together for the first time in this highly-anticipated exhibition

'I don't like to say I'm representing America'—performance artist Joan Jonas takes on the US pavilion

She talks to The Art Newspaper about the natural world, working with children, the relationship between cooking and art, and why standing for a nation is always problematic

Sweet smell of success for Sarah Lucas at the British Pavilion

Custard and cream coloured sculptures retain some humour and bawdiness, but works by the former Young British Artist are more poignant than provocative

Hi, Biennale Crowd: did you know Venice is dying for these six reasons?

What you can do despite too many cruise ships, rising sea level and with no one in charge

Marcello Coronini: my top four Venice eateries

The Italian food critic hails Venice’s culinary tradition and picks his favourites from the wealth of restaurants hidden throughout its sestieri

Venice for old hands

Think you know La Serenissima? These hidden gems will take you off the beaten path and away from the Biennale crowds

Reacting to the present

From 19th-century nationalist preoccupations to 21st-century outsiders, the Venice Biennale has always reflected the here and now—and this year is no exception

Sarah Lucas on a British pavilion show that will be 'hard-core crème Anglaise'

The YBA promises a bawdy mix of high and low culture, loo-paper meets bronze, in a show that is "classic Sarah Lucas" yet “very Casanova”