Tag Archives: Venice Biennale

Steve McQueen at Marian Goodman

February 19, 2010 – 1:38 pm

Giardini, Steve McQueen’s 2 channel video installation shown in the British Pavilion during the Venice Biennale last summer, is a quiet, subtle, and beautiful view of the pavilions that host the Biennale, minus the art world rukus. Giardini is debuting in America along with a new piece Static at Marian Goodman Gallery. The bleak scenes [...]

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Worlds Collide in Venice

October 1, 2009 – 4:18 am

How many worlds are there? And to whom do they belong? Wondering around the Giardini at the 53rd Venice Biennale, it appears that there are, rather depressingly, fewer worlds out there than one might imagine. Perhaps, in the end, there is only one giant one, the art world, which purports to incorporate and speak on behalf [...]

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Venice Biennale

June 13, 2009 – 4:37 pm

The Venice Biennale started off as it should: with a little hot gossip.  While gliding through the Venetian waters via boat-taxi, a major art world player remarked that a certain Russian Billionaire-turned-art-collector could not get his mega yacht into main viewing position near the Giardini due to its size, and it had to be docked in [...]

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Take Care of Yourself

April 13, 2009 – 12:33 pm

The first U.S. exhibition of Sophie Calle’s “Take Care of Yourself” is now on view at Paula Cooper Gallery. The show–named after the last line of a break-up email sent by Calle’s ex–premiered at the 2007 Venice Biennale and has since traveled around the world. When the French artist (best known for her intimate conceptual [...]

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