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Lawrence Lek’s QE3. Photograph: Courtesy the artist and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Glasgow rules the waves

From skateboarding clams and swimsuit performance art to QE3’s maiden voyage, Sarah McCrory’s Glasgow International 2016 festival programme is awash with freewheeling energy, but some big shows sink under their own weight

Politics & Nature: unnatural and natural states of the world at 56th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

Arriving in Venice for the vernissage days whilst elections were in full swing, I was surprised to be confronted by a politically charged Biennale. Colonialism, Capitalism, Socialism, contemporary slavery and migration were some of the themes running through the 56th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opened not long after a period of several weeks during which more than 1,800 migrants – many of them African – drowned whilst attempting to flee across the Mediterranean to Europe..

Lucky PDF, the DIY art agitators

The subversive south London collective staged parties, launched an online channel, and now makes subversive and often participatory art works for the digital generation

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