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Moon Babies, Piss Tanks and Cicciolina: A Dispatch From the 61st Venice Biennale
May 11, 2026
Our associate editor takes us through a week of protest, urine, Campari and Cicciolina at this year’s Biennale.
RUSH OUT
At the Venice Biennale, Lavar Munroe Conjures the Legacy of John Beadle
May 8, 2026
After a 13 year hiatus, the Bahamas returns to the 61st Venice Biennale with a post humous collaboration between the two artists.
IN CONVERSATION
Jeffrey Gibson Tells Michèle Lamy How Rave Culture and Porn Collectors Inspire Him
August 6, 2025
“Art has given me an opportunity to lean into things that don’t seem practical,” the 53-year-old painter and sculptor tells Michèle Lamy. “They don’t have to be linear, they don’t have to make sense.”
VENICE BIENNALE
For Jonathan Lyndon Chase, A Masterpiece Emerges From the Rubble
May 8, 2024
“I’m very interested in this idea of what our bodies carry,” says the 35-year-old artist. “If we take something like paper and crumple it, it always kind of holds a memory.”
Venice Biennale
“I’m Happy to Be an Object”: Miles Greenberg, in Conversation With Klaus Biesenbach
April 17, 2024
“I feel I’m quite happy to be an object,” the artist told Klaus Biesenbach ahead of his ambitious performance at Palazzo Malipiero. “I think that’s always the goal, in a way.”
VENICE
Meet Aindrea Emelife, the Curator Bringing Nigerian Art to the Venice Biennale
July 21, 2023
“I was a little bit of a black sheep.”
IN CONVERSATION
Thelonious Stokes and Chance the Rapper Bring the South Side to Ghana
February 22, 2023
“We’re the security guards in God’s club.”
film!
Wu Tsang and Tosh Basco on the White Whale in the Room
April 29, 2022
The filmmaker and her collaborator discuss queer family, nightlife, and dilapidated art forms.
gallery walkthrough
Artist Gabriel Rico Adds Up Found Objects and Mathematical Theorems
May 17, 2021
The Mexican-based artist explains the method behind the madness of his new show at Perrotin Gallery.
Anne Imhof is Creating Hard-Core Performance Pieces that Speak to the Anxieties of a New Generation
March 7, 2019
The German artist talks with the Vetements and Balenciaga stylist Lotta Volkova about what attracted her to art and music, and the awesome power of open-ended collaborations.
The Painter Djordje Ozbolt is Showing Us How to Regain Memory Loss
March 6, 2019
The eccentric painter was recently tapped to represent his native country of Serbia at the 2019 Art Biennale in Venice.