Venice (Italy)
Sonia Boyce Wins Top Prize at Venice Biennale
VENICE — The artist Sonia Boyce won Britain the top prize at the Venice Art Biennale, the world’s longest-running and most high-profile international exhibition of contemporary art. “Feeling Her Way” — a sound installation of five Black British female musicians singing a cappella — took the Golden Lion for best national participation. Boyce is the […]
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Rushing Against War, and Time, Ukraine Makes It to the Biennale
VENICE — The 78 bronze funnels were ready, the pump tested and the backdrop was almost done. So when it looked as if war was most likely coming to Ukraine, Maria Lanko, one of the curators of the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, was determined to get the artist Pavlo Makov’s fountain sculpture safely […]
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In Venice, a Young Boatman Steers a Course of His Own
VENICE, Italy — From the time he was a child, Edoardo Beniamin could envision paddling a gondola through the waterways of Venice, his native city. He saw himself, dressed in a striped jersey and ribboned straw hat, following his father and an uncle into a profession that has served as the enduring symbol of La […]
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Simone Leigh Holds Court at the U.S. Pavilion in the Venice Biennale
Simone Leigh was on the phone from Venice. It’s not all here yet, she told me. She had been installing her exhibition of bronzes and ceramics in the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale — one of the most prestigious commissions in the art world, and the first time it has been awarded to […]
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Venice to Replace Glass on Santiago Calatrava’s Slippery Bridge
VENICE — As tourists wandered obliviously on the glass floor of the footbridge, locals proceeded with caution. Venetians made sure to walk on the narrow stone strip at the center, some lifting fogged glasses to keep their eyes on the ground. When a visitor tripped, they barely lifted their gaze. “That is not a bridge,” […]
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