The Year in Participation: Hands-on Art
Ten immersive art pieces that allowed people past the looking glass, giving them a hands-on experience.
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2017 Venice Biennale
First-Ever Nigeria Pavilion Opens at the Venice Biennale
Today marked an historic occasion at the Venice Biennale: the opening of the first-ever Nigeria Pavilion, located in the Scoletta dei Battioro e dei Tiraoro, an early 18th century building that
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A Penguin in Venice
Here’s a sentence I never thought I would write: I had the most wonderful little art-viewing trip at Louis Vuitton in Venice today. On the first floor, Vuitton has a big display of the new
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Keep on Truckin’
At the last Venice Biennale, in 2015, Isa Genzken installed some very beautiful, towering orchids at the far edge of the Giardini, and I remember looking at them longingly, wishing…
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The Korean Pavilion: Come for the Neon, Stay for the Pepto-Bismol
The outside of the Korean Pavilion, which is showing work by the artist Cody Choi, is covered in a neon work called Venetian Rhapsody, The Power of Bluff (2017) that beckons visitors to…
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There She Blows: Geoffrey Farmer Builds a Geyser in the Canadian Pavilion
Geoffrey Farmer’s exhibition at the Venice Biennale, “A way out of the mirror,” runs in, through, above, and around the Canadian pavilion. It is moving, strange, and a little frightening, and…
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This Carol Bove Sculpture Deserves Its Own Post
As you read in the space earlier, the Swiss Pavilion is called “Women of Venice.” That title derives from a series of work that Alberto Giacometti made for the French Pavilion in 1956. He…
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Anne Imhof’s Bargain Pays Off With ‘Faust’ at the German Pavilion
An early take on the German Pavilion came from a fellow writer who had just walked out: “It’s terrifying, you have to go see it now.” Indeed, the hit of the Giardini may be Anne Imhof’s Faust…
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The Story of Giacometti’s Flora
Sculptor Carol Bove may have taken an abstract approach to “Women of Venice” in the Swiss Pavilion—a show dedicated to the absence of Alberto Giacometti in the Swiss pavilion—but the…
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‘Love Is a Rebellious Bird That No One Can Tame!’: Aria on Offer at Xavier Veilhan’s French Pavilion
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