Venice Biennale

The frieze editors preview a selection of the Biennale’s off-site projects

Hettie Judah on five spirit mediums, political agitators, self-taught outsiders or surrealists that ‘bite back’ in Cecilia Alemani’s Venice exhibition

The frieze editors select the projects they are most looking forward to at the National Pavilions

The frieze team selects the projects they are most looking forward to at the Giardini’s Central Pavilion and the Arsenale

Featured in this year’s Venice Biennale, the artist zooms in on Singapore and Venice, two ports of the publishing world

The frieze team selects the projects they are most looking forward to at the Giardini’s Central Pavilion and the Arsenale

Barbara Casavecchia interviews the four finalists of Venice’s new College Arte programme

The Austrian artist Wolfgang Zinggl looks back on his social practice collective’s project for the 1999 Venice Biennale

Elvia Wilk on the artist’s understated and poignant series ‘Children’s Games’ (1999-ongoing)

Avram Finkelstein looks back on Gran Fury’s contribution to the 1990 Venice Biennale, The Pope and the Penis, and considers how the immediacy of social media might have impacted the AIDS activist collective

With the spotlight at the Venice Biennale falling all-too-often on the 30 national pavilions in the Giardini, writer Jennifer Higgie asks whether this 19th-century format still makes sense

Writer Thea Hawlin on Giulia Cenci’s dark installations, where the past, present and future converge

Francesco Tenaglia speculates on whether performance will have a repeat victory at this year’s Biennale

Fernanda Brenner on the artist's uncanny and transgressive films

Ahead of Bopape's presentation at TBA21–Academy's Ocean Space in Venice, Eric Otieno Sumba reflects on the artist’s relationship with the sea

In further news: LA MoCA’s free admission starts in January 2020; Manchester Museum returns sacred Aboriginal artefacts

There is a place for evidentiary art – but not for Kenneth Goldsmith’s print-out of 62,000 pages of the former US Secretary of State’s correspondence

In further news: David Adjaye tipped to design Nigerian museum for looted Benin treasures; Hillary Clinton reads her emails in Venice

What the frieze editors have been reading this week