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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.
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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.
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A Venice Show Centers Disability Justice
Power concedes nothing without a demand, and the tireless efforts of the Disability Arts Movement deserve both recognition and celebration.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Artist Who Made Miniatures Grand
Rosalba Carriera worked on a small scale, but she was emphatically not a modest artist.
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Yuan Goang-Ming to Represent Taiwan at the 60th Venice Biennale With Everyday War
Video art musing on the state of existence encompasses the exhibition curated by Abby Chen and presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
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An Urgent Vision of Architecture at the Venice Biennale
Fittingly titled The Laboratory of the Future, the 18th edition of the show instructed participants to reuse materials and minimize their carbon footprint.
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Can We Find Compassion in the Grotesque?
Monstrous Faces and Caricatures invites viewers to confront ugliness and the questions it raises about how we relate to it.
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Discovering How Black Women Might Forge a Path to Freedom
The "Loophole of Retreat" symposium at the Venice Biennale demonstrated that the personal is not only political; it’s also where most of humanity lives.