Venice Biennale

What the frieze editors have been reading this week

The Golden Lion-winning Lithuanian Pavilion, ‘Sun & Sea (Marina)’, crafts an endless pop song for the end times

Crisis at home has postponed the country’s presentation just days ahead of the Biennale’s public opening

In Ralph Rugoff’s exhibition ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’, disorientation is the order of the day

Structures by Modernist masters including Carlo Scarpa offer an alternative to the city’s medieval streets and Gothic churches

Four years after converting a church into a mosque, the Swiss-Icelandic artist is once again courting controversy in Venice

Can Natascha Süder Happelmann succeed in doing away with national ‘representation’ altogether?

The artist represents the US at this year’s Venice Biennale

What the frieze editors have been reading this week

Body and landscape converge in the groundbreaking painter’s first US retrospective at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

The performances have been devised in collaboration with Delfina Foundation’s Aaron Cezar

A tribute to the Nigeria-born poet, critic and ‘most important curator of his generation’, who persistently bid us to open our eyes

In further news: Hermitage to curate Venice Biennale pavilion; Remai Modern CEO hit by harassment allegations

‘May You Live In Interesting Times’ will be the first ever biennale exhibition in which 50% of artists are female.

In further news: Venice introduces tourist tax ahead of biennale; Jeff Koons embraces automation

‘Piper reminds me that I must remain committed to both my language and actions’

With new work on view at Tanya Bonakdar, New York, a look back at the artist’s iconic Venice pavilion

‘Given today’s resurgent far right, Haacke’s exhibition serves as a model for resisting the present’

Partnership between Frieze and Singapore Tourism Board brings a free, public discussion to Singapore Art Week 2019

In further news: German pavilion announces artist for Venice; Emmanuel Macron urges art world to fight extremism