Spanning performance, video and photography, Turkish artist Nilbar GüreÅ?'s previous bodies of work often dealt with constructing gender identity within patriarchal cultures
The 13th Istanbul Biennial, titled "Mom, Am I Barbarian?" (Sept. 14-Oct. 20) aims to examine the public domain as a political forum. A statement released by the organizers in January said that the exh…
Jens Hoffmann and Adriano Pedrosa, co-curators of the upcoming Istanbul Biennial, have refused to give a descriptive title to their exhibition, opting instead for "Untitled (12thIstanbul…
Taking equal inspiration from critical studies and Twitter, Fia Backström's work engages methods of display to raise large questions about form, politics and rhetorics. Through short, cryptic poems pr…
Emory Douglas and Rigo 23 are two artists of two successive generations of association with Black Power, who uncompromisingly advocate social and political change through their work. They both live in…
No matter how frantically you try to make it through the Venice Biennale, the list always proves too long, and your time in Venice too short. For the benefit of Biennial visitors who have yet to draft…
For this year's Venice Biennale, the renovation of the Arsenale buildings has been extended to an area just across the little manmade pond called the Darsene Grande to include the spacious warehouses…
The Venice Biennial's central exhibition, its 77 national pavilion exhibitions, and its dozens of ancillary exhibitions (or "collateral projects") are accompanied by an equally copious number of event…
One of the most memorable works displayed in Robert Storr's exhibition for the 52nd Venice Bennale was a double-headed fountain sculpture by artist Bruce Nauman.
Curator Daniel Birnbaum's exhibition Fare Mondi/Making Worlds forms the centerpiece of the 53rd International Venice Biennial, which brings together 90 chosen artists who lend narrative or representat…