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The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is the place to examine a number of the most beautiful uncommon books in the marketplace. But at this 12 months’s occasion in early April, some browsers could have been unprepared for a small, grayish merchandise on view: a e book certain in human pores and skin. The […] More

An early model of “Dovecote,” a brief, practically wordless movie directed by Marco Perego for exhibition on the Biennale, has a scene that tracks a person in uniform as he drives a motorboat by a morning in Venice. The metropolis is exhibiting off its glories, with palazzos and domed church buildings mirrored within the canals, […] More

The artist Roni Horn considers herself an “off model” in additional methods than one. “I’m not even certain I’m a visible artist,” she stated lately throughout a go to to her massive Manhattan studio, incongruously positioned in a high-end Chelsea residence constructing. Those statements could sound self-deprecating coming from somebody with 4 solo exhibitions at […] More

They used to name this waterlogged metropolis the Most Serene Republic, however there’s nothing serenissima in regards to the opening days of the Venice Biennale. The world’s longest-running and most extravagant competition of up to date artwork opens to the general public on Saturday after a preview biathlon of high-quality artwork and monetary profligacy that […] More

At the 2022 Venice Biennale, the artist Maria Eichhorn uncovered the foundations of the German Pavilion, lengthy the occasion’s most controversial constructing. By tearing up a stretch of the travertine flooring and elements of the wall plaster, she revealed the stays of the unique constructing earlier than it was altered in 1938 in accordance with […] More

Spiders are weavers. The Navajo artist and weaver Melissa Cody is aware of this palpably. As she sits cross-legged on sheepskins at her loom, on one of many picket platforms that increase her increased as her stack of monumental tapestries grows, the sacred data of Spider Woman and Spider Man, who introduced the present of […] More

The exhibitions have been put in. The artists have arrived. The metropolis of Venice is ready to welcome throngs of tourists from internationally. The 2024 Venice Biennale, that includes work by greater than 330 taking part artists from some 90 international locations scattered all through town, opens to the general public on Saturday. And earlier […] More

At the very starting of Si Lewen’s “The Parade,” the sequence of untitled antiwar works on artist’s board that kinds the pulsing coronary heart of a brand new exhibition curated by the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, 4 sketchy, ecstatic girls and boys stride into the countless risk of unmarked white gesso. In the second panel, a […] More

Willem de Kooning had by no means been to Italy when he traveled to Venice for an amorous rendezvous in September 1959. Things bought sophisticated, so the Dutch-born artist made a rapid journey to Rome — and was utterly entranced. He instantly returned for a virtually four-month keep within the Italian capital, and was again […] More

Bastien Blanc-Tailleur, a Parisian pâtissier, has all the time had a ardour for confections. “I’ve been obsessed by pastry since I used to be just a little boy,” he mentioned. Since opening his namesake enterprise in 2015, Mr. Blanc-Tailleur has grow to be probably the most prestigious creators of marriage ceremony and special-occasion truffles in […] More

The Israel pavilion on the Venice Biennale is closed this yr, since its artistic crew determined to not exhibit work till there was a cease-fire and hostage deal in Gaza, however it was nonetheless the location of a giant demonstration on Wednesday that drew greater than 100 protesters. “Viva, viva Palestina!” the protesters chanted as […] More

Toward the top of “Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring,” Brad Gooch’s exhaustive new biography, he quotes from a journal entry Haring made after visiting the Museum of Modern Art in 1988 expressing his “sense of injustice” that contemporaries of his “have been represented upstairs within the galleries, whereas he was confined to […] More