It feels like there is an unusually large amount of sound art and musical work being presented at the Venice Biennale—much of it thrilling, by turns violent, alluring, and filled with surprises.
The term “immersive” is often abused—a fancy-sounding cliché to describe an exhibition that is merely expansive, cluttered, or, as the critic Ben Davis noted, “full of big things.” Not so with regard …
The Albanian-born, Paris-based video artist, currently the subject of an exhibition at the New Museum, New York, reflects on the importance of syncopation—musical, visual and sociopolitical—in his lif…
Chinese archeologists have found an additional six-mile stretch of the Great Wall on the border of the Gansu province and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. [The Art Newspaper]
Anri Sala…
Thirteen years after he won the Young Artist Prize at the Venice Biennale in 2001, Albanian video and installation artist Anri Sala won the 2014 Vincent Award on November 21. Given biennially by
Germany and France have swapped pavilions at this year's Venice Biennale to mark the 50th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty, a pact of friendship between the two nations. Perhaps in keeping with this…