Features

At the Venice Biennale, a solo exhibition by artist Vyacheslav Akhunov draws Uzbekistan’s inherited legacy of architectural symbolism into relief

A huge donation will future-proof the centre’s Norman Foster-designed building, but also highlights the growing importance of mega donors within Britain’s cultural sector

The removal of an artwork at the last minute raises questions of intellectual freedom and returns to Soviet-era censorship

Timed-based and live art features heavily across this year's Venice Biennale. Can the public appetite for spectacle translate to market success?

In the decades since the explosion of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the disaster has become a cultural touchstone

Will the shifting culture of commercial patronage in the arts cause the 61st Venice Biennale to look materially different?

The Birmingham-born artist’s retrospective at Tate Britain confirms his place as one of Britain’s leading – and most expensive – painters

Gagosian’s Joshua Chuang marks the moment Penn’s photography turned from reproduction to object

The New York institution’s director talks about the promise of tomorrow, getting past the ‘stupor’ of the masterpiece and rethinking the art museum

At the Moody Center for the Arts, Imaging After Photography argues that the key question is no longer whether images are real, but how they are produced – and why we might still believe them