Artists

Arthur Jafa, Viriconium, 2026, installation view, in “Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince,” 2026, at Fondazione Prada, Venice. Photo Andrea Rossetti/Courtesy Fondazione Prada What is appropriate to appropriate? That question is the one that animates practices of Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa, who are currently showing their work together at the Fondazione Prada in …

In Venice, Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince Ask: What Is Appropriate to Appropriate? Read More »

Georg Baselitz’s exhibition at the Fondazione Cini in Venice. Courtesy Fondazione Cini Six days after the death of Georg Baselitz, his longtime dealer Thaddeaus Ropac opened an exhibition in Venice this week that the artist had already accepted would be his last.  At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, “Eroi d’Oro” (“Heroes of Gold”) brings …

Controversial Painter Georg Baselitz Knew His Venice Show Would Be His Last. He Went Out Quietly. Read More »

Guadalupe Rosales’s work in the 2026 Venice Biennale. Photo Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews In 2015, Los Angeles–based artist Guadalupe Rosales launched the Instagram account @veteranas_and_rucas as a way to share images from her personal archive of Chicana life in Southern California in the 1990s. In the decade since, the account has shared thousands of images and amassed …

Guadalupe Rosales Brings East LA to Venice for the Biennale Read More »

Gabrielle Goliath’s “Elegy” at La Chiesa di Sant’Antonin in Venice. Photo Luca Meneghel/Courtesy the Artist The South Africa Pavilion in the Giardini will sit empty for the entirety of this year’s Venice Biennale, the result of a decision by culture minister Gayton McKenzie to cancel a planned pavilion by artist Gabrielle Goliath for being “highly …

Gabrielle Goliath Discusses Her Canceled South African Pavilion as She Shows New Work in a Venice Church Read More »

Barry X Ball, Pope Saint John Paul II 2012–2024. Francesco Allegretto. When Carmelo Grasso, director and curator at the Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, saw New York–based artist Barry X Ball’s sculpture Pope Saint John Paul II (2012–24), he knew he wanted to mount a show at the sublime church where he works. …

Barry X Ball’s Wild Sculptures Are Perfectly at Home at Venice’s Grand Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore Read More »

Dana Awartani’s Saudi Arabia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Courtesy the artist and the Visual Arts Commission, Commissioner of the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia When you enter the Saudi Arabia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the first thing you’re struck by is the scale of the project: tens of thousands of clay bricks slotted …

With Nearly 30,000 Clay Earth Bricks, Dana Awartani Remakes History in the Saudi Arabia Pavilion Read More »

Trevor Paglen, Voyager, 2026. Photo Trevor Paglen/©Trevor Paglen/Courtesy the artist, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, and Pace Gallery, New York Every two years, Venice is activated with more art than is possible to see in a week. While much attention this year will be on “In Minor Keys,” the central show curated by the late …

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Natasha Tontey, The Phantom Combatants and the Metabolism of Disobedient Organs (still), 2026. Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and Amos Rex; ©2026 Natasha Tontey/Courtesy the artist Fresh off her first institutional exhibition, artist Natasha Toney is set to unveil an ambitious immersive installation during the Venice Biennale at the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed …

Natasha Tontey to Unveil Major New Immersive Installation Exploring Indigenous Resistance During Venice Biennale Read More »

Nalini Malani. Photo Luke Walker Entering the cavernous Magazzini del Sale in Venice, viewers encounter Nalini Malani’s animations, which are projected directly onto the uneven brick walls of the former salt warehouse. Her images flicker, dissolve, and reappear as they are cast across architecture shaped by centuries of trade. The installation feels both contemporary and …

Newsmakers: Nalini Malani Lets the Walls Speak with a New Installation in Venice Read More »

Nancy Burson’s 1983 work “Big Brother,” in which she composited the faces of Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Stalin, and Ruhollah Khomeini. Courtesy the artist and Heft Gallery At first glance, Nancy Burson’s “Quantum Entanglement” paintings appear simply as white dots washing over black canvases in clusters and waves. Some dots resemble pairs of eyes; others appear …

Digital Art Pioneer Nancy Burson Collapses the Border Between Mysticism and Quantum Physics Read More »