Venice Biennale opens to public
116392
The 52nd Venice Biennale, the world's oldest art exhibition, opens to the public in northern Italy.
393579
The Venice Film Festival is past the  halfway point and the buzz ahead of the prize ceremony on  Saturday is building.
99148
Venice's Fenice Opera House hosts its first performance since it was gutted by fire in 1996.
562226
"We think of the exhibition as a medium, a move away from representation toward production"  Documenta, the world's largest contemporary art show that is held every five years, opens for the 12th time this weekend, boasting more than 500 works from 113 artists.The $25.3 million show opens Saturday in the central German city of Kassel, and runs for 100 days.It brings together disparate works of modern artists, including a photo series by Palestinian artist Ahlam Schibli focusing on the lives of her people. There is also a performance art piece by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei that will see 1,001 Chinese people _ including farmers, workers and police officers _ fly to Germany and then walk through the streets of Kassel for a week. Read more
539576
Damien Hirst, the superstar British  artist best known for his pickled displays of large animal  corpses, launched his controversial work in Russia's capital on  Monday at a private viewing with a difference.
293508
Amid the glamorous parties and the people watching at the 52nd Venice Biennale are chilling images of an apocalyptic world.
392693
An exhibition of art treasures which was almost prevented from going ahead opens its doors in London.
171559
Flowing fabric the color of sunrise was unfurled Saturday as "The Gates" &#151; a vast public art installation along the miles of footpaths in Central Park &#151; opening a 16-day project expected to lure art connoisseurs and the merely curious to the heart of Manhattan.
290689
Actress Keira Knightley's forthcoming film Atonement is selected to open this year's Venice Film Festival.
73580
New York's Museum of Modern Art  reopened to the public on Saturday after a two-year, $825  million renovation and expansion that about doubled its size.
216612
Stars turn out as St Mark's Square in Venice is transformed into a giant cinema for the premiere of the animated film Shark Tale.
5702
The installation - and vandalism - of a series of sculptures in Sarasota has raised questions of taste, art, and local identity.
566644
An exhibition of papal portraits from the Renaissance to Pope John Paul II will open in Rome at the end of this month, the organisers announced.
63487
Venice's St Mark's Square will be transformed into a giant cinema for the premiere of animation Shark Tale.
448979
The world's oldest running film festival, the Venice Biennale, is used to imitators. But this year, the upstarts are just a little too close to home.
625371
VENICE, Italy  - Venice Film Festival   organizers suspended a war of words with their upcoming Rome   rival as this year's event kicked off in low-key fashion   Wednesday with the world premiere of Brian De Palma's murder   mystery "The Black Dalhia."
81385
A concert by Bob Geldof is to open the Hay literature festival, taking place in Spain for the first time.