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Major works by artist Alberta Whittle acquired for the nation

The two pieces were part of the Barbadian-Scottish artist’s show at the Venice Biennale last year.

The Independent UK

What do women want? Freud's infamous question invites voyeurism – but examining what they do is far more revealing

Ten years ago, artist Linda Fregni Nagler’s archival collection of more than a thousand studio-made portraits of infants went on show at the Venice Biennale.

The Conversation

Archie Moore becomes second solo Aboriginal artist to represent Australia at Venice Biennale

Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist uses smell to evoke memory and explores racism and national identity through flags

The Guardian - AU

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John Akomfrah to represent Britain at Venice Biennale

The artist known for exploring racial injustice, migration and climate crisis in his films and multiscreen installations will fill the British pavilion next year

The Guardian - UK

Another amazing year for female artists. So why are they still stifled and impoverished?

From the Turner shortlist to the Venice Biennale and more, 2022 was another dazzling year for women. But, away from the headlines, a cold look at the data shows equality is generations away

The Guardian - UK

Swatch marks Venice Biennale with a Thai collab

Navin Rawanchaikul reunites with the Swiss watchmaker to create an artistic timepiece, celebrating the 59th edition of La Biennale Arte in Venice, Italy.

Bangkok Post

Sonia Boyce’s Venice Biennale winner to be exhibited in UK next year

Feeling Her Way, featuring videos of five black female musicians, to be shown in Margate and Leeds

The Guardian - UK

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Venice Biennale Musica review – things old, new, borrowed and bleurgh

The contemporary music strand of the Italian festival brought a typically elegant and thoughtful music theatre work by Michel van der Aa; less successful was Yvette Janine Jackson’s ‘radio opera’ Left Behind

The Guardian - UK

Venice and the milk of dreams

Santa Maria Della Salute, also known as Saint Mary of Health, stands majestically at Punta Della Dogana by the Grand Canal in the city of Venice. In 1631, Venice experienced an unusually devastating plague when nearly a third of the population was wiped out. As a votive offering, the Republic…

Bangkok Post

Sun & Sea: the climate change opera that audiences adore - and it’s coming to London for the LIFT festival

A smash-hit at the Venice Biennale, this unique performance is about to open in south London

Evening Standard

Venice Biennale 2022: Marco Fusinato takes over Australia Pavilion with 200 days of guitar performance and spectacle

Marco Fusinato's installation DESASTRES at the Venice Biennale has been described as "powerful [and] hypnotic" and one of the best national pavilions at the prestigious contemporary art exhibition.

ABC News

At the Venice Biennale, Art Begins to Leave Identity Politics Behind

The much-anticipated, Covid-delayed global showcase sees artists firmly moving away from figuration and toward a new end: the message.

Businessweek

The $44bn gamble: Inside the 6 May Guardian Weekly

Elon Musk’s Twitter plans; Roe v Wade; back at the Venice Biennale

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale: sensuous and serious

Editorial: The latest edition of the art exhibition feeds all the senses. It feels exactly right for now

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‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph of older Black women

Artists, novelists, actors, poets: from the Venice Biennale to Bridgerton, Black women in their 50s and 60s are finally getting the recognition they deserve, says the pioneering Booker winner

Evening Standard

Stan Douglas: the Canadian artist on why he featured two London rappers in his Venice Biennale show

It does seem a bit incongruous at first. Why are two London grime artists - not to mention two Egyptian rappers - appearing in a work by a 62 year-old Canadian artist at the Venice Biennale?

The Guardian - UK

Cyborgs, sirens and a singing murderer: the thrilling, oligarch-free Venice Biennale – review

The Russian pavilion is closed and you can’t speak in the Italian one. Thank goodness for the opium-smoking cat and the human turning into a mobile phone. Our writer reports from the groundbreaking arts spectacular

Evening Standard

What to see at the Venice Biennale, from Sonia Boyce to the Sami Pavilion

The Venice Biennale is back and it’s as thrilling as ever, but what should you take the time to see?

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59th Venice Biennale review – the women’s biennale

In a seismic year, female artists take centre stage, while a timid institutional response leaves Ukraine to valiantly fend for itself

Al Jazeera

Female artists dominate the Venice Biennale for first time

The event puts a spotlight on artists who have been overlooked, while also investigating themes including gender norms.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Female Artists Dominate the Venice Biennale for 1st Time

For the first time in the 127-year history of the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair features a majority of female artists, under the curatorial direction of Cecilia Alemani. The result is a Biennale that puts the spotlight on artists who have been long overlooked…

The Independent UK

Female artists dominate the Venice Biennale for 1st time

For the first time in the 127-year history of the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair features a majority of female and gender non-conforming artists, under the curatorial direction of Cecilia Alemani

The Independent UK

US artist Leigh recasts colonial imagery at Venice Biennale

American sculptor Simone Leigh is the first Black woman to headline the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale contemporary art fair

The Independent UK

Ukrainian artist makes cultural stand at Venice Biennale

Artist Pavlo Makov’s role representing Ukraine at the Venice Biennale has become an act of defiance against the Russian invaders, whose attacks on his adopted hometown of Kharkiv have grown more intense in recent days

The Guardian - UK

‘We are fighting for our culture’: Ukrainian artists head to Venice Biennale

Pavlo Makov was reluctant to leave Kharkiv but after sleeping in a bomb shelter for a week, he decided he had to represent Ukraine

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