News
Karachi Biennale Cancels Fifth Edition Over “War Conditions”
The cancellation of the January 2027 event reportedly came without the input of the biennale’s curator, Noor Ahmed.
Biennials
Guide
15 Fall Art -Ennials, From St. Louis to Dakar
A photography show dedicated to NYC in the nighttime, an Indigenous-led arts festival honoring the Mississippi River, the first-ever Bienal de Yucatán, and more biennials and triennials to visit across the world.
Art Review
International Rendezvous at Guatemala’s Paiz Art Biennial
This year’s biennial, The World Tree, was intended to highlight the “archetypal myth central to many ancient cosmogonies.”
Music
Digging Into Chile’s Punk Underground
With Hueso Records, artist Iván Navarro wants to bring back the music of his youth from legendary Chilean indie and punk bands like María Sonora.
Satire
Night at the Biennial
The art world is a scary place. A horror satire.
Art Review
The Bukhara Biennial Will Break Your Heart
The work in Uzbekistan’s first major biennial shimmers with the promise of culture as a connective tissue, while the autocratic government that funded it lurks in the shadows.
Art
A Gaza Biennale Takes Shape Amid Loss and Ruin
The show will center “the Palestinian narrative, the Palestinian story, and the Palestinian cause,” said artist Tasneem Shatat.
Guide
Toronto Biennial of Art Promises Joy Amid Precarity
The third edition of the free citywide event features artists including Cecilia Vicuña and Pamila Matharu.
Art
Five Highlights From Detroit’s Queer Art Biennial
With more than 180 artists, I’ll Be Your Mirror shows the depth and range of the city’s creativity as well as its diverse LGBTQ+ community.
Art
Istanbul Biennial Asks, Can We Talk?
Spread across a dozen venues, with 500 contributors from almost 30 nations, the Biennial aims to draw in a public estranged by politics and two years of pandemic lockdowns.
Art
A Desert Biennial, Somewhere Between Settlers and Searchers
Sprawling across the Joshua Tree region, nine site-specific works consider the ways in which people have relocated to the desert, destroying what came before them, and cultivating new life.
Art
The End of the Art World as We Know It
An international art world that has called persistently for radical socioeconomic change is now faced with it.