News
Photos From the Pope's Historic First Visit to the Venice Biennale
Pope Francis visited the women's prison where the Vatican is presenting its pavilion exhibition this year.
Italy
Art
Inside the Vatican's Uncanny Venice Biennale Pavilion
Con i miei occhi (With my eyes), staged in a women’s prison, preaches visibility but operates on secrecy.
Art
Goya and Dix Just Needed a Rainbow
The problem with a show in Venice on war is the insistence that there had to be a bit of hope too — and the hopeful element of this show is feeble, if not schmalzy.
Art
Willem de Kooning’s Italy
Paintings from the late 1950s and on prove that de Kooning had sat at the feet of, and learnt much from, such old Italian masters as Titian and Tintoretto.
Art
Bomb Shelter Posters in Venice Evoke the Reality of War in Ukraine
The maps show the location of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Biennale and the sites of real bunkers or air-raid shelters in the city from a time not so long ago.
Art
Benin Debuts First-Ever National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Everything Precious Is Fragile is an opportunity to collapse the conventions that define the nation in the global popular imagination.
News
Israeli Artist Pausing Venice Biennale Show Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Critics Say
The partial closure of the pavilion until a ceasefire is reached is an “empty and opportunistic” gesture, said a group who called for Israel to be excluded from the event.
News
Italian Heritage Group Decries “Biennalization” of Venice
Italia Nostra says a new sculptural display in Venice’s public square distracts from the city’s existing cultural heritage and infrastructure in need of conservation.
News
Artist Attacked in Italy Over Painting of Jesus Receiving Oral Sex
A masked assailant slashed Andrea Saltini's artwork, which Catholic groups have deemed “blasphemous,” and then turned the blade on the artist.
News
Activists Cover Up Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi’s Rapist in Italy
Advocates drew attention to Italy’s domestic violence and femicide crisis and denounce the Palazzo Ducale’s controversial “rape room” exhibition.
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Taiwan’s Public Programs at the Venice Biennale Focus on “Island-Thinking”
Organized by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, programming linked with Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War opens on April 18.
Opinion
Who the Hell Came Up With an Artemisia Gentileschi "Rape Room"?
An exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Genova trades a celebration of the pioneering artist’s opus for a violent spectacle.