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There is a fascinating little rhyme tucked into the title of the artist Erick Meyenberg’s piece for this yr’s Venice Biennale — “Nos marchábamos, regresábamos siempre” — however the cadence doesn’t convert neatly into English. “It is gorgeous in Spanish, and it really works in a really poetic means,” stated Meyenberg, who will signify his […] More

At the architect Philip Johnson’s former property in New Canaan, Conn., there has lengthy been a Glass House and a Brick House. Now there’s additionally a Paper House. The Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s Paper Log House, to be actual. An exhibition of this straightforward, low-cost construction — designed in 1995 to accommodate victims […] More

Bangkok, known as the Venice of the East by European missionaries and sailors who fell underneath town’s spell centuries in the past, will have a good time its fourth biennale this fall, however not earlier than utilizing the sixtieth Venice Biennale to showcase itself as that different metropolis of canals, tradition and artwork. “The Spirits […] More

For the painter Julie Mehretu, whose works are at present on show on the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, a solo retrospective held little attraction. Instead, she selected to incorporate different artists from a variety of disciplines. “Collective research is one thing I’ve been fascinated by for a very long time,” she stated by cellphone from […] More

1977 The “Biennale of Dissent” highlighted artists from the Soviet Union and different Communist bloc international locations, akin to Czechoslovakia, showcasing Soviet artwork, theater and movie made by dissidents at residence and overseas. The artwork exhibition, “New Art From the Soviet Union. an Unofficial Perspective,” featured some 300 works by 70 Soviet artists who weren’t […] More

Did a conspiracy by U.S. State Department officers and artwork sellers safe a prize for portray for Robert Rauschenberg on the Venice Biennale in 1964? Unconfirmed rumors of some form of nefarious plot to that impact swirled in worldwide artwork circles for years. The documentary filmmaker Amei Wallach had heard them, and he or she […] More

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