A biennale is one of the most influential forms of international art exhibition and is an opportunity to present the spirit of the city in which it is hosted. In the years since Mika Yoshitake curated ...

Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter The first ...

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, author of a new account of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, rejects the argument that Russian imperialism was unsalvageable in the face of pressure from the modernising ...