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Anish Kapoor says US’s ‘politics of hate’ should exclude it from Venice Biennale
Artist commends jury for resigning over inclusion of Russia and Israel but says reasoning should also have included US
The art of politics: how global conflicts are playing out in this year's Venice Biennale
Israel and Russia's return to the Biennale has sparked threats of disruption
In Gherdëina, Curating a Biennale Around the Politics of the Garden
“The garden is less a physical site than a conceptual space through which we could think about belonging, stewardship, memory and our shared responsibility toward the future,” curator S…
Known in New Orleans, multimedia artist will take the world stage in Venice Biennale
For decades, the 73-year-old conceptual artist has been creating art that explores the universe’s most pressing questions. Now she’s preparing for what is arguably the contemporary art world’s most important show.
From Eurovision to the Venice Biennale, culture contests are being overshadowed by politics
The Venice Biennale, Eurovision and Cannes are framed as artists representing their nations. But in a fractured world national identity seems increasingly futile
Art and Politics
The Venice Biennale is always overwhelming for art. Our culture writer says the politics were overwhelming this year, too.
Art and politics collide as protests reframe the Venice Biennale
From Pussy Riot’s chants to Latvia’s “Death in Venice” campaign, art has taken a backseat at this year’s Vernissage as...
Busan Biennale 2026: a ‘Dissident Chorus’ of sound, art and politics
This year, South Korea’s oldest biennale explores politics through sound, performance and art, but does it truly challenge the status quo?
China is boycotting a major Asian art festival over the naming of a Taiwanese exhibition
Chinese artists are boycotting the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea over plans to designate an exhibition space as the “Taiwan Pavilion.”.
When politics invades art, an Israeli artist seeks common ground at the Venice Biennale
Belu-Simion Fainaru, our representative at the Venice Biennale, struts his creative stuff and rolls with the anti-Israel punches.
Sydney Biennale 2026: politics is everywhere – but with nuance, beauty and heart
The festival became a political flashpoint well before the program reveal – but the featured works focus not on spectacle and slogan but on a polyphony of voices singing their own songs
Faig Ahmed Weaves Mysticism, Science, Technology, and Craft into 'The Attention'
Curated by Gwendolyn Collaço, Ahmed's Venice Biennale presentation expands upon the dialectic between digital processes and hand-crafted techniques.
Photos: Inside ‘Camp Abundance’ with New Orleans artist Dawn DeDeaux ahead of Venice Biennale
See photos of New Orleans’ artist Dawn Dedeaux’s home in New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood.
The political controversy overshadowing the Venice Biennale
Protests, resignations and boycotts dominate opening of the ‘Art Olympics’
The Polish Pavilion Dissolves You in the Politics of Sound
At the Venice Biennale, whale songs become a means for communication, opening up a dialogue on accessibility.
What Iran’s absence from the Venice Biennale reveals about art and politics
Rather than existing outside politics, the Venice Biennale has become a site where geopolitical tensions are actively staged and contested.