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Around the Venice Biennale
Before you see Phyllida Barlow’s British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, read up on the 73-year-old artist’s fascinating career. A fun fact: Barlow is distantly related to Charles Darwin and Queen Victoria’s physician. [The Guardian]
One of the works in Damien Hirst’s Palazzo Grassi show is a near-copy of a 14th-century Nigerian sculpture, but no context is given. Is this a problem? One artist thinks so. [The Huffington Post]
McArthur Binion, Rachel Rose, and more artists share their favorite works so far at the Venice Biennale. [Artforum]
Contemporary Art for Canines
Dogumenta, an exhibition for canines, will launch as a satellite of sorts to the European quinquennial this August. [W]
Fresh Talent
With six My Struggle books behind him, Karl Ove Knausgaard will try his hand at curating. [Vice]
Tina Rivers Ryan will be the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s first assistant curator. [Artforum]
Agnès Varda is now on Instagram. Follow her for updates on her forthcoming film about the street artist JR. [Instagram]
A Christie’s Move
Loic Gouzer, the art specialist with a lively Instagram account, is now the co-chairman of Christie’s Americas postwar and contemporary department. He and Alex Rotter, equals after Gouzer’s title change, fill a void left behind by Brett Gorvy. [The Art Newspaper]
Extras
Currently on view at New York’s Jewish Museum is “The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin,” which ponders the German philosopher’s impact on 20th- and 21st-century artists. [The New Yorker]
A look around Pierre Klossowski’s show at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. [Contemporary Art Daily]