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[ad_1] LONDON – Sonia Boyce is used to tear down walls. Last month, she became the first Black female artist to represent the UK. Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest international art exhibition. This Work presented at the English Pavilion won the grand prize Golden Lion. Six years ago, she had become the first black British …
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[ad_1] VENICE — Artist Sonia Boyce won the top prize at the competition held in England. Venice Art BiennaleThe longest running and highest profile international contemporary art exhibition in the world. “Feeling It” – sound installation of five Black British female musicians singing a cappella – Received the Golden Lion for best national participation. Boyce …
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[ad_1] VENICE – “What happened to freedom of expression in Italy?” On Wednesday morning, one of the 50 or so spectators shouted at the Venice Biennale as a security guard stood in front of a lone anti-war protester and tried to block his message. Berlin-based Russian artist Vadim Zakharov has just unfurled a banner in …
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[ad_1] VENICE — It has been somewhat lost in the brain fog of time, but in March 2020 one of the first memes of the coronavirus pandemic emerged in the waters of this Most Peaceful Republic. some scammers shared a photo of dolphins supposedly swimming in Bacino di San Marco, and swans navigating the uncontaminated …
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[ad_1] VENICE — The kind of gruesome painting that makes you want to avert your eyes: Titian’s “The Swim of Marsyas” depicts a satyr – half human, half goat – hanging upside down, skinning alive while a dog sucks his blood and a musician plays the violin indifferently. But artist Mary Weatherford wanted to continue …
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[ad_1] Restoration and Profession after purchase Casa dei Tre Oci on Venice’s Giudecca For the institute that bears his name on the island last year, investor and philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen announced in March that it has purchased Palazzo Diedo, another Venetian palazzo to house a new cultural initiative: Berggruen Arts & Culture, 2024. For now, …
[ad_1] This Venice BiennaleThe world’s longest-running contemporary art survey will meet again this weekend after being delayed for a year due to the pandemic. The 59th of the world’s oldest international exhibition, which opened to the public on Saturday and runs until 27 November, should attract hundreds of thousands of visitors excluding another wave of …
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[ad_1] MEXICO CITY — If there was a piece to summarize Mexico’s 2022 exhibition Venice Biennalewould be Naomi Rincón Gallardo dark allegory “Vermin Sonnet.” In the 20-minute video, a bat, a snake, a scorpion and a chorus of frogs desperately find their way through a futuristic world ravaged by environmental destruction and social disorder. Rejected …
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[ad_1] LONDON – When the Venice Art Biennale opens its doors to the public this weekend, France will be represented for the first time by an artist of Algerian origin. Zineb Sedira is this artist and her appointment is historic in several ways. Only a handful of female artists have been exhibited by the French …
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[ad_1] OSLO – Currently, many members of the Sámi, one of Europe’s oldest Indigenous groups, embark on a spring migration by relocating their reindeer herds, on which their livelihoods and cultures depend, to grasslands mostly north of the Arctic Circle. But this year, a handful are going in the opposite direction. They are heading to …
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[ad_1] VENICE, Italy – Since childhood, Edoardo Beniamin could dream of paddling the waterways of Venice, his home city. He saw himself dressed in a striped jersey and striped straw hat as he followed his father and uncle into a profession that has served as the enduring symbol of La Serenissima for a thousand years. …
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[ad_1] VENICEby Ange Mlinko Ange Mlinko’s poems are brought to life with an unusual combination of impulses. An intense and serious artisanal product with hard, smooth surfaces and intense interiors, the painting is highly polished. but yet formal very often recommend staid or measured, Mlinko’s poems are anything but. Wild, energetic, lively, useless catholics in …