Tag: Venice Biennale
Making Art on Top of the World
KINNGAIT, NUNAVUT, Canada — Just 125 miles shy of the Arctic Circle, in a hamlet etched into an…
Spring Auction Sales for Two Blockbuster Weeks Top $2.5 Billion
Last year, global auction sales of paintings by artists under 40 soared to $259.5 million, a 177 percent…
Sonia Boyce, a Winner at the Venice Biennale, Is Fighting Forgetting
LONDON — Sonia Boyce is used to breaking down walls.Last month, she became the first Black female artist…
Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books
VENICE — It starts in the eyes: shy or seductive, gaping or sealed shut, aqueous frontiers between the…
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…
At Venice Biennale, Contemporary Art Sinks or Swims
VENICE — It’s a bit lost now in the brain fog of time, but in March 2020 one…
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…
At Venice Biennale, a ‘Different Notion of Nation’
OSLO — Right about now, many members of the Sámi, one of Europe’s oldest Indigenous groups, are embarking…
In Her Last Works, Kaari Upson Explores Vanity and Decay
LOS ANGELES — On a visit last month to Kaari Upson’s studio here, it looked like she just…
Russian Artists Speak Out Against War, but Fear Reprisals
The young Russian artists Kirill Savchenkov and Alexandra Sukhareva were set to represent Russia in April at the…