At a time when the supposed grown-ups in governments worldwide are fomenting turmoil and bigotry, Anne Imhof's fluid and effortlessly cool world offers an alternative idyll.
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 was…
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 Jeff Koons…
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 it was possible…
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 the Biennale…
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 it is…
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 refused to…
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, a…
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 filmmaking team…