The 54th Venice Biennale has awarded its highest honor, the Golden Lion for best national pavilion, to Germany, which featured the work of Christoph Schlingensief. The Golden Lion for best art work was given to Christian Marclay’s “The Clock” (2011). [via In the Air Blog/Artinfo]

More about Schlingensief at the Venice Bienalle at Spiegel Online.

The Latest

Required Reading

This week, the world’s lightest paint, Pakistan’s feminist movement, World Puppy Day, and were some of Vermeer’s paintings created by his daughter?

Avatar photo

Hrag Vartanian

Hrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic. You can follow him at @hragv.