©Mark Preston Illustration May 24, 2013

Venice Biennale 2013: The lagoon show

Is it the most prestigious contemporary art event, an opportunity to project soft power, or just an excuse for great parties?

Josef Koudelka’s ‘Trittico’ Peter Aspden May 24, 2013

See and be seen

The Vatican hopes to reunite art and faith with its debut at the Biennale

Installation view of the Kunsthalle, Bern, in 1969 ©Siegfried Kuhn May 24, 2013

Impossible encounters

A seminal 1969 show is brought back to life this year at the Prada Foundation in Venice

a scuplture made by artist Antoni Tapies May 24, 2013

A Catalan collection

Emma Crichton-Miller on Antoni Tàpies at the Palazzo Fortuny

A photograph artpiece by Iraqi artist Jamal Penjweny May 24, 2013

The view from Iraq

The country’s pavilion offers artists rare access to the international circuit. Gareth Harris reports

El Anatsui with ‘Tsiatsia – Searching for Connection’ at the Royal Academy ©James Royall May 24, 2013

Full metal façade

Ghanaian artist El Anatsui has given the venerable Royal Academy a summer makeover

Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Sex Obsession, Phallic Bowl’, (1965), at Art Basel Hong Kong From COLLECTING May 24, 2013

The Art Market: first they took Miami, now they take Hong Kong

Basel brand hits HK; one fair in, one fair out in California; massive deflation for sculpture

Leonid Mikhelson ©Sergey Sapozhnikov From COLLECTING May 24, 2013

Laying the foundations

Cristina Ruiz meets Russian art patron Leonid Mikhelson, a first-time Venice exhibitor

Hannah Barry May 24, 2013

Small change, maximum impact

Hannah Barry is making waves without big budgets. Jackie Wullschlager meets the brains behind the pop-up Palazzo Peckham

Anthony Caro ©Mike Bruce May 24, 2013

Man of steel

Ahead of his Venetian retrospective, Anthony Caro tells Rachel Spence about abstraction, sculpting metal and why he is now embracing Perspex