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The 59th Venice Biennale reconnects sensory awareness with ancestral forms of knowledge...................

THROUGHOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, modern and contemporary art in the West sought either to cheat history or to travesty it. To cheat history is to outrun it in gestures aimed at utopian schemes (as envisioned by Suprematism or the artists of De Stijl) or dystopian destruction (as in Futurism or some variants of Dada). Among modernist avant-gardes, history offered a necessary dialectical framework for its own supersession—this is why the rhetoric of revolution remains so appealing and ubiquitous in accounts of modern art. Paradoxically, this legacy has been codified or canonized (and certainl...

Looking for activities to keep you occupied over the summer? Check out our selection of this week's events for some ideas. By Parker Lamb

Humbert was the most beautiful boy in the town.He had blue eyes and golden curls.He was very beautiful, but he was nasty.He liked putting rats in the beds of his sisters.The little girls cried.One day, Rose, his sister, put a crocodile in his bed.“AI” yelled Humbert, “I’m afraid there’s a crocodile in my bed!”But Humbert was so beautiful the crocodile gave him an agreeable smile. Humbert and the crocodile had become friends.The child was even nastier than he was before because he could go everywhere with the crocodile.—Leonora CarringtonPAINTED IN THE 1950S on the walls of her so...

At a talk organised by Therme Art, artists Sonia Boyce and Precious Okoyomon discuss how play can bring people closer together