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.
Venice
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.
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Announcement
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.
Art
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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Announcement
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
In Venice, the Roma People Take Center Stage
The history of the Roma and Sinti in Poland and Europe is that of marginalization, exclusion, misrepresentation, and persecution.
Art
Mapping Out "Refugee Modernism" at the Venice Biennale
Yiddishland Pavilion artists Yevgeniy Fiks, Avia Moore, and others effectively question the borders that continue to define the art world.
Art
At the Venice Biennale, a Border-Defying Yiddishland Pavilion
Yiddishland is a porous and generative project that threads itself through various pavilions, subtly undermining the national logic of the biennale.
Comics
Reflecting on Nationalism at the Venice Biennale
There are 30 nations represented in the international exhibition. Some aren’t in their best moment today. A comics diary.