This year’s biennial features almost 100 artists and “figures of interest” in a city-wide exploration of the tales we all tell and how they form us and our cultures

The 12th edition of the International will be structured around roughly 25 figures, both real and fictional, from a 19th-century saloon owner to the Indigenous author N. Scott Momaday

The Italian curator, who has organised exhibitions and events throughout the world, reveals the thinking behind her female-dominated exhibition The Milk of Dreams

Plus, Van Gogh’s self-portraits in London, and the story of when Dalí met Freud

The exhibition will include “gender non-conforming artists who are challenging the figure of man as centre of the universe”

September event marks end of first year of the initiative overseen by Cecilia Alemani, the director of High Line Art, New York