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Photos by Mitchell Nugent. As the Venice Biennale opened its 61st edition this year, another institution woven into the city’s cultural fabric marked a milestone of…

The 61st Venice Biennale brought all kinds of mayhem and spectacle. It was a heated year from the jump. A week before the festival even opened,…

For the first time ever, Bulgari became an official sponsor of the 2026 Venice Biennale, a role that will continue through 2030. Supporting the arts is…

Lavar Monroe and John Cox. Photo courtesy of Lavar Monroe. TUESDAY, 4:30 PM, APRIL 28, 2026 VENICE Somewhere in a pile of old newspapers laying around…

A handsome, skinny white boy in his late teens or early 20s peruses a narwhal’s tusk in a museum vitrine while chewing on a toothpick. Another,…

A few weeks ago, during Art Basel Paris, I started to hear about the American Arts Conservancy, a nonprofit that supposedly had something to do with…

Marina Abramović was 14 years old the first time she attended the Venice Biennale. Traveling by train with her mother from her hometown of Belgrade, Serbia,…

The 2025 edition of the Venice Film Festival was full of big swings: mind-melting sci-fi (Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia), big-budget Gothic epics (Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein), piercing,…

With two weeks of premieres, galas, and water taxi arrivals, the 2025 Venice Film Festival proved that no one does glamour quite like the Italians. The…

Julian Schnabel‘s long-gestating offbeat period drama In the Hand of Dante has finally met an audience. The Oscar Isaac-starring film received an enthusiastic welcome at its…