Venice

A renowned novelist wanders the city's streets, immersed in its cultural offerings with one rule: no idling

To honour the artist's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Biennale, Simon Wu reflect on her long-standing poster series

The photographer curates the perfect soundtrack for exploring Venice during the 60th edition of the Biennale

The artist representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale discusses songs that subverts the country’s history of linguistic oppression

To address the continent’s lack of representation on the world stage, the Biennale should look to festivals like Nigeria’s FESTAC ’77

In her triumphant survey exhibition at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, the artist continues her long-running exploration of women as generative, creative forces

A thirty-year-old memory, a one-night stand and an art exhibition featuring this newly translated piece by the prize-winning author

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

A response to the late Greek artist’s survey at Fondazione Prada, Venice

Winner of the Future Generation Special Prize, the artist sheds a light on rape culture in South Africa and around the world

More than 80 works from four decades mine the tension between beauty and horror

To address the ‘interesting times’ alluded to in the title of the 58th Venice Biennale, we must challenge the language we use to describe them

In further news: cultural figures demand resignation of Germany’s foreign minister; Joan Miró paintings damaged in Venice floods

After months of speculation, Puryear has been chosen for the US pavilion, organized by the Madison Square Park Conservancy

As Varejão’s ‘Saunas and Baths’ paintings and ‘Meat Ruins’ sculptures go on show at Victoria Miro, Venice, the Brazilian artist on her work’s layers of meaning

She is the third female artist in a row chosen for the Great Britain pavilion

Arsenale and Giardini, Venice, Italy

From situationists to shame: what to read this weekend

A guide to the off-site shows in Venice this week

Unesco takes no action over Venice while thieves break into Anselm Kiefer’s studio