Stories collected by a Ukrainian journalist and a former soldier and prisoner of war will feature in a major exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale.

Their testimonies will be accompanied by works by artists including Tacita Dean, Kateryna Aliinyk and Ashfika Rahman in Still Joy - From Ukraine into the World.

The show, which is at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac from May 9 to August 1, is supported by the foundation of Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk.

It includes a series of landscapes by Aliinyk, Dean’s 2025 film If I were in the Adlon and Rahman’s installation of Hindu temple bells suspended by golden silk threads.

The announcement of the show comes after the biennale was plunged into controversy when it confirmed earlier this month Russia is returning to the event for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine.

It was reported yesterday that 37 members of the European Parliament signed a letter urging the European Union to suspend its $2.3 million funding of the biennale if Russia takes part.

You can be a part of James Turrell's latest work by singing a lullaby down the phone.

The opening of his new installation at the Aarhus Art Museum (ARoS), As Seen Below, will be accompanied by a three-part soundtrack created by Marie Koldkjaer Hojlun featuring music by Caterina Barbieri and Philip Glass and a choral work including childhood lullabies.

Hojlund, a professor of sound studies at Aarhus University, said: "We would love people to share the lullabies they were sung to sleep with. For me, these melodies and words sit deep in the body’s memory. They hold a sense of comfort, but also of vulnerability and surrender to the dark and the unknown."

The museum has set up a phone line people can call to sing or speak their lullaby and Turrell has already contributed his own.

The work will be performed at sunset on June 19, 20, and 21 when the installation opens.

It was back to class for LS Lowry after Tate loaned one of his works to a school near where it was painted.

Dwelling Ordsall Lane, Salford 1927, was on show at the Lowry Academy - named after the painter - in the city in the north of England all this week.

It is one of hundreds of works sent on loan by Tate every year - mostly to other museums. In 2025 it lent 605 works within the UK and another 568 around the world.

More than 3 million people saw a Tate work on loan to British venues last year – more than visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam or MoMA in New York.

Tate Liverpool's outgoing director Helen Legg said the collection was "a national resource" that "must be shared right across the country and beyond".

1 - Paul Klee's Angelus Novus should be on show at New York's Jewish Museum but has still not left Israel due to what the museum describes as "current conditions affecting international transport". The work is from the collection of Jerusalem's Israel Museum which is currently closed to visitors due to the conflict in the Middle East.

2 - Italy’s Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli said there is "a policy to step up" acquisitions as he unveiled Antonello da Messina's Ecce Homo in Rome. It was bought by the Italian state for $14.9 million shortly after it spent around $35 million on a Caravaggio.

3 - Hackers struck the online ticketing platform used by some of France's major museums. The cyber attack earlier this month affected venues including the Musee d'Orsay and Notre Dame in Paris as well as the Louvre's outpost in Lens where the online ticket service is still down as a result.

4 - Work by artists including Mark Grotjahn, Raven Halfmoon and Lauren Halsey will go on show in the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. when it re-opens in October. They are among eight new works in the space which closed for renovation in 2023.

5 - Former Christie's CEO Guillaume Cerutti is stepping down as president of the Pinault Collection after only 13 months in the job, according to reports. No official statement has yet been made but a spokesperson for the collection confirmed the move to The Art Newspaper.