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☆ Venice's plan to charge tourists descended into chaos, showing how much of a headache overtourism has become
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The move sparked protests, highlighting the problems city officials face when tackling overtourism. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . When cities are overrun with tourists, officials are often tasked with finding ways to make them more liveable for residents. On peak days, tourists visiting Venice for the day need to buy a ticket online or at booths to enter the city. Other tourist hot spots have implemented caps on the number of daily visitors.

Persons: —, aren't, Simone Venturini, Venturini, Luca Bruno, Manuel Silvestri, it's Organizations: Service, Guardian, Business, AP, Reuters, Mount Fuji, BBC, US National Parks Locations: Venice, Italian, Veniceland, Amsterdam, Japan, Fujikawaguchiko, Austria, Athens

☆ Venice Biennale: Pope makes landmark visit and proclaims that ‘the world needs artists’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Christopher Lamb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Venice CNN —Pope Francis has become the first pontiff to visit Venice’s contemporary art festival during a trip which saw him visit a female prison and rehabilitate the reputation of a pioneering American nun artist. Francis began his Venice trip by greeting each of the approximately 80 inmates in the prison courtyard, several of whom are involved in the exhibition. For 2024, the Venice Biennale has taken the theme “Foreigners Everywhere” and seeks to highlight artists from marginalized backgrounds. The Venice Biennale was first held in 1895 and takes place every other year, with each country having their own pavilion (the Vatican is the world’s smallest sovereign territory). For 2024, it has taken the theme “Foreigners Everywhere” and seeks to highlight artists from marginalized backgrounds.

Persons: Venice CNN — Pope Francis, Pope, Chiara Parisi, Bruno Racine, —, Francis, Marco Perego, Zoe Saldaña, Saldana, ” Francis, ” Pope Francis, ”, Corita Kent, Kent –, Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois —, ” Kent, Mary, James McIntyre, Saint Mark, Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Maurizio Cattelan, Pope John Paul II Organizations: Venice CNN, Vatican Media, Getty, Immaculate, Vatican, biennale Locations: American, Italian, Venice, Los Angeles, St, Portuguese

☆ Pope’s Visit to Art Exhibition in Prison Is a First for Venice Biennale
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Landing by helicopter at a women’s prison where the Vatican has mounted its pavilion for the Venice Biennale international art exhibition, Pope Francis on Sunday told the women incarcerated there that they had a “special place in my heart.”“Grazie,” one woman called out. Others applauded. Over the decades, countries participating in the Biennale — the world’s principal showcase for new art — have used deconsecrated churches, former beer factories, water buses and various other sites to display their art, but this was the first time a prison was selected. That made the project “more complex and more difficult to implement,” Bruno Racine, the director of two venues of the Pinault Collection in Venice and a co-curator of the Vatican Pavilion, said in an interview. But the setting is consistent with Francis’ message of inclusivity toward marginalized people, he added.

Persons: Pope Francis, “, ” Francis, ” Bruno Racine, Francis ’ Organizations: Venice Biennale, Sunday Locations: Venice

☆ With day-trip fee 'Disney-fication' of Venice, the world hits its overtourism tipping point
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Trevor Laurence Jockims | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

In the 1970s, there were about 175,000 residents in Centro Storico, the main island and historic center of Venice. In fact, there are now more tourist beds in Venice than there are residents. Last week, Venice took action on overtourism, introducing a 5€ fee to day trippers who want to access the city. "You can't impose an entrance fee to a city; all they're doing is transforming it into a theme park. Marco Bertorello | Afp | Getty ImagesDespite its many detractors, the day fee is a significant move on the part of Venice's government to confront the challenge of overtourism, which has become a significant global problem since the pandemic.

Persons: Stefano Mazzola, Luigi Brugnaro, Mark —, There's, Matteo Secchi, Marco Bertorello, Antonio Paolo Russo, Russo Organizations: Piazzale Roma, Getty, Venice, Centro Storico, Guardian, Tourists, Afp, Virgili University Locations: Piazzale, Venice, Italy, Centro, Piazzale Roma, Santa Lucia, Tarragona, Spain, Bali, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Europe

☆ I'm using my synesthesia to create a new genre of AI art. The technology can 'read' my paintings and help me compose music.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I listen to Indian classical music, Gregorian chants, and some obscure composers such as Gyorgy Ligeti, Leo Ornstein, and Terry Riley. Instead, she suggested I create a visual alphabet that matched the musical chords I heard in my mind to colors. I met with musicians and AI experts to create a visual alphabetI started by looking for musicians to collaborate with and met Anthony Cardella, a young, incredibly gifted pianist in Los Angeles. When I heard that music played back to me, it brought tears to my eyes. The audience could look at the paintings while Anthony played, which was a profound experience.

Persons: Shane Guffogg, Gyorgy Ligeti, Leo Ornstein, Terry Riley, I've, Radhika Dirks, —, Anthony Cardella, He's, Anthony, I'd, He'd, he'd, Jonah Lynch, Jonah, Ligeti, Ornstein —, It's Organizations: Service, USC, Forest Lawn Museum, Venice Biennale Locations: American, Venice, Los Angeles, California

☆ Book at these times to save money on summer flights for 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —In travel news this week: a gelato ban in Italy, runaway horses in central London, the orange fog that hit Athens and – if you’re still feeling brave enough – the best dates and times to book summer flights. When to book summer travelMid-to-late August is the best time for Americans to fly this summer, according to travel company Expedia. It recommends booking summer flights 21 to 60 days out – last year, travelers booking during this window saved around 15% on domestic and international travel. Similar savings were enjoyed by travelers who departed on a Monday for international flights or on a Tuesday for domestic flights, compared with those who opted for more popular Thursday and Friday departures. Over in London, laid-back Bethnal Green cocktail bar Satan’s Whiskers was this month named “Best Bar in the UK” at the Class Bar Awards.

Persons: you’re, It’s, –, Expedia, ” you’re, Speakeasy, Taylor, Swift, Pelumi Nubi, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, Travelers, Bethnal, Peugeot Locations: Italy, London, Athens, Europe, Greece, Helsinki, Finland, Buckingham Palace, Venice, Paris, Moulin Rouge, Colonia Juárez, Mexico City, North America, South London, Lagos, Nigeria, Italian, American

☆ Chris Pine’s latest red carpet look puts a new spin on ‘method dressing’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Alex Rees | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

(CNN) — At the premiere of his new film “Poolman” in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, Chris Pine stepped onto the red carpet in an artfully-disheveled ensemble. Over a light beige slogan tee, Pine wore a “Miami Vice”-worthy blazer accessorized with a large pink peony boutonnière. For the Vanity Fair Oscar's after party on March 27, 2022, Chris Pine wore a rich red velvet smoking jacket over a shirt with a pussybow-style neckline. Rich Fury/VF22/Getty ImagesPictured here in slouchy red, white and blue suiting, Pine attends the Venice International Film Festival on September 05, 2022. Sala Gedu/BackgridOn the “Poolman” red carpet, the 43-year-old actor told E!

Persons: Chris Pine, he’s, Rich Fury, Pine, Franco Origlia, Jon Kopaloff, Anthony Ghnassia, Sala Gedu, Tom Selleck, Harrison Ford, ” Organizations: CNN, —, Miami, Venice Locations: Los Angeles, Hollywood, Beverly Hills , California, Paris, comfy, Instagram, Los Feliz , California

☆ Welcome to Venice. That’ll Be 5 Euros, Please.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Pulling into the Santa Lucia train station in Venice on Thursday morning, passengers were told via an overhead announcement that they might have to pay a 5-euro fee to enter the city’s historic center. Failure to pay could result in a fine from 50 to 300 euros, the announcement said. Those who hadn’t were directed to a booth where they could. After registering, overnight visitors were sent on their way without having to pay, but people planning to stay just for the day were charged (though there were other exemptions). It was a new welcome to Venice, the first city in the world to charge day visitors a nominal entrance fee, a measure city officials hope will help counter overtourism.

Persons: “, ”, Lorraine Colcher Locations: Santa Lucia, Venice, Wirral, England

☆ What to Know About Venice’s Fees for Day Trips
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After years of debate, Venice on Thursday will begin charging day visitors five euros to visit its fragile historic center on peak days, making it the first city in the world to adopt such a measure to counter overtourism. Critics question whether a nominal fee will put people off from visiting one of the world’s most desired destinations. But officials hope that it might encourage some to rethink their plans and decide to come on weekdays or in the off-season. About half of those visitors came only for the day, city officials said. The spirit of the initiative, city officials have said, is to make people aware of the uniqueness — and fragility — of Venice.

Persons: Nicola Camatti Organizations: Foscari University of Venice Locations: Venice

☆ Venice becomes world's first city to charge an entry fee for day-trippers
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Venice will begin on April 25, 2024 charging day trippers for entry, a world first aimed at easing pressure on the Italian city drowning under the weight of mass tourism. Venice became the first city in the world to charge a payment for tourists in a bid to alleviate the pressures of mass tourism and make the city more livable for its residents. The pilot program will exact a fee of 5 euros ($5.4) from day-trippers to Venice, one of Italy's most picturesque and historic cities. Municipal workers were seen checking the tickets of day-trippers outside the front of the fragile lagoon city's Santa Lucia railway station. The charge applies to tourists arriving between 8:30 a.m. local time and 4 p.m., while access is free outside of those hours.

Organizations: Reuters Locations: Venice, Italy, Santa Lucia

☆ The Venice Biennale and the Art of Turning Backward
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Jason Farago | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There is a sour tendency in cultural politics today — a growing gap between speaking about the world and acting in it. In the domain of rhetoric, everyone has grown gifted at pulling back the curtain. We are losing faith with so many institutions of culture and society — the museum, the market, and, especially this week, the university — but cannot imagine an exit from them. I’ve just spent a week tramping across Venice, a city of more than 250 churches, and where did I encounter the most doctrinaire catechism? It was in the galleries of the 2024 Venice Biennale, still the world’s principal appointment to discover new art, whose current edition is at best a missed opportunity, and at worst something like a tragedy.

Locations: Venice

☆ Breasts take center stage at Venice Biennale exhibition
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —What is one of the earliest and enduring subjects in art and media — as well as one of the most censored? And these are all themes explored broadly in the exhibition “Breasts,” a robust survey on display at the 60th Venice Bienniale. “It’s very intimate, so it’s perfect for international artists to develop a dialogue with each other,” she said in a video call. “Artists keep going back to it.”“It’s been a wonderful moment to contemplate my own relationship with the meaning of breasts,” she added of the show. Scroll to see artworks from the show, which will run through November 24 at the Palazzo Franchetti.

Persons: they’re, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Salvador Dalí, Anna Weyant, Chloe Wise, Lakin, Carolina Pasti, “, ”, Bernardino del Signoraccio, Sherman, Jesus, Del, Raphael, Flavio Gianassi, we’ve, Teniqua Crawford, “ It’s, Todd White, Europe Allen Jones, Maggiore Allen Jones, Maggiore Laura Panno, Christopher Bucklow, Tetrarch, Claudia, Schiffer, Christopher Bucklow Giorgio de Chirico, Nudo, Turin Louise Bourgeois Organizations: CNN, Venice Bienniale, Artists, Buchanan Studio, Maggiore Locations: Venice, Europe, Italy

☆ Behind a Vegan Chef’s Holistic Empire, an Ugly Reality
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Brett Anderson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Josie Duran overheard Matthew Kenney’s pitch many times. As a lead server at Plant Food + Wine in Venice Beach, Calif., Ms. Duran often waited on Mr. Kenney, the restaurant’s chef and owner, as he entertained potential investors on the restaurant’s fig-tree-shaded patio, persuading them to trust him with their money for his ambitious culinary projects. At a time when adopting a plant-based diet has become an environmental and ethical cause around the world, Mr. Kenney, 59, is among the world’s most famous vegan chefs. Plant Food was the flagship restaurant of Matthew Kenney Cuisine, a sprawling, health-focused company that until recently operated, managed or invested in more than 50 restaurants across the globe, from Los Angeles to São Paulo to Dubai. But Ms. Duran grew to resent Mr. Kenney’s visits — in part, she said, because she believed she was helping the chef cultivate a misleading image of success.

Persons: Josie Duran, Matthew Kenney’s, Duran, Kenney, Matthew Kenney, São Paulo, Kenney’s Organizations: Food Locations: Venice Beach, Calif, Los Angeles, Dubai, —

☆ Crafting Shoes Never Meant to Be Walked In
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Jessica Roy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last week at the Venice Biennale, the milliner Giuliana Longo wore gold earrings in the shape of hats as she showed off a hat sculpture made of natural agave. Ms. Longo, who has worked as a milliner since 1969, said through a translator that she fell in love with hats because “if you wear a hat, you become a different person.”Dotted with 500 “pebbles,” each hand stitched to the fabric, the hat was in fact not just a hat but a tribute to a shoe: the Tod’s Gommino driving shoe, a hand-stitched loafer in leather or suede with rubber pebbles on the bottom and back that make it look a bit like a soft, chic cleat. Tod’s, the Italian leather goods and fashion company, had assembled 11 Venetian craftsmen to interpret the Gommino using their own tools and artistry. The works, created by Venetian glassblowers, mask makers and other artisans, were exhibited at a cocktail party on April 19. At an airy warehouse across the canal from the Italian Pavilion, craftspeople stood proudly by their work.

Persons: Giuliana Longo, Longo Organizations: Venice Biennale Locations: Venice, Venetian

☆ Archie Moore, Australian Artist, Wins Top Prize at Venice Biennale
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Alex Marshall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Archie Moore, an Indigenous Australian artist who has created an installation including a monumental family tree, won the top prize at the Venice Biennale on Saturday. Moore, 54, took the Golden Lion, the prize for the best national participation at the Biennale, the world’s oldest and most high-profile international art exhibition. He beat out artists representing 85 other countries to become the first Australian winner. For his installation, “kith and kin,” Moore has drawn a family tree in chalk on the walls and ceiling of the Australia Pavilion. The web of names encompasses 3,484 people and Moore says it stretches back 65,000 years, although he has smudged some details so that they are hard to read.

Persons: Archie Moore, Moore, kith, ” Moore, Julia Bryan, Wilson Organizations: Lion, Biennale, Columbia University Locations: Australian, Venice

They used to call this waterlogged city the Most Serene Republic, but there is nothing serenissima about the opening days of the Venice Biennale. The world’s longest-running and most extravagant festival of contemporary art opens to the public on Saturday after a preview biathlon of fine art and financial profligacy that has grown more hectic than ever. You exchange tips on shows not to miss. You judge, you gossip, you wash it all down with Prosecco. Have you seen the Uzbekistan pavilion?

Organizations: Venice Biennale, Prosecco Locations: Serene, Venice, Uzbekistan

☆ In Venice, a Conservative Painter Stages an Unpopular Rebellion
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Alex Marshall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Six months ago, Ignacy Czwartos won the opportunity of a lifetime. A politically conservative painter whose work contains religious, historical and military images, Czwartos was an outsider in the contemporary art scene in Poland. After liberal, centrist and moderately conservative political parties formed a new government in Poland, they quickly dropped Czwartos as the country’s Venice representative. Instead, the new culture minister announced that he would send Open Group, a Ukrainian collective, to the Biennale instead. The decision, made with little explanation, “was an act of political censorship,” Czwartos said, adding that the Polish government had acted like a totalitarian state.

Persons: Ignacy Czwartos, Czwartos, ” Czwartos, “ Organizations: Law, Justice Party, Venice Biennale, Open Locations: Poland, Venice, Ukrainian

☆ A Millennial Weaver Carries a Centuries-Old Craft Forward
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Patricia Leigh Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Spiders are weavers. The Navajo artist and weaver Melissa Cody knows this palpably. It also infuses “Melissa Cody: Webbed Skies,” the first major solo exhibition of the artist’s work, which is on view at MoMA PS1 through Sept. 9. in a co-production with the São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil (known as MASP). The exhibition is part of the overdue recognition of Indigenous artists by museums and other institutions, from the recent retrospective of Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art to the expanding roster of artists at the Venice Biennale. Cody, 41, is a millennial at the forefront of an art form harking back millenniums — at once building on tradition and joyously venturing beyond it.

Persons: Melissa Cody, Man, Jaune Organizations: MoMA, São Paulo Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American, Venice Biennale Locations: Brazil, Venice, Cody

☆ What to see at the Venice Biennale 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Nicole Mowbray | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —This week sees the opening of the Venice Biennale, an 8-month-long festival of art and culture staged every other year. For 2024 — the show’s 60th iteration — Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa has chosen the topic of “Foreigners Everywhere,” and announced an intention to spotlight artists from diverse and historically marginalized backgrounds. With the main event running from April 20 to November 24 2024, here’s our pick of what to see if you’re headed to Venice. “Willem de Kooning e l’Italia” — Willem de KooningThe show at Gallerie dell’Accademia will include 75 Willem de Kooning works, including "Screams of Children Come from Seagulls (Untitled XX)," 1975. Yoo Youngkuk Art FoundationThe first exhibition in Europe of one of Korea’s most influential artists, including many works never exhibited before outside Korea.

Persons: Adriano Pedrosa, ”, Pedrosa, —, you’re, “ Willem de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Kooning, Gallerie, Nick, Berlinde De, Abbazia, Ewa Juszkiewicz Juszkiewicz, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Palazzo, Palazzo Cavanis, Ai, Peter Hujar, della, Carolina, Marcel Duchamp, Franchetti, Cindy Sherman, Louise Bourgeois, Sarah Lucas, Irving Penn, Palazzo Franchetti, Marco “, Zoe Saldana, Marco Perego, Corita, Maurizio Cattelan, Pope Francis, Inuuteq Storch, Louise Wolthers, “, John Akomfrah, John Akmofrah, Yoo, Yoo Youngkuk, Stampalia, M.F, Husain, Picasso, Viktoria Bavykina, Max Gorbatskyi, Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei, Ela Bialkowska, Ai Weiwei, Palazzo Smith, Koo Jeong, Koo, Rick Lowe, Lowe's, Lowe Organizations: CNN, Venice Biennale, Palazzo, Sun, Danish, British, Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation Locations: Venice, Italy, “, Refuge, ” City, San Giorgio Maggiore, San, New York, Santa, San Marco, Marco, Giudecca, Corita Kent, American, Greenland, Europe, Korea, India, Sale, Ukraine, Continua, Bangkok, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Singapore, Houston

☆ Donald Trump's Truth Social has crashed 70% from its peak — and experts say the meme stock may fall further
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump's meme stock has plunged by 70% from its peak last month. Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, soared after it went public. AdvertisementDonald Trump's meme stock skyrocketed in March but has now crash-landed. Advertisement"Given Donald Trump's substantial fanbase, particularly during election cycles, he could wield significant influence over specific stocks, such as Truth Social stock," he said. The sharp rise in Truth Social price will definitely be a short-run phenomenon because it is not fully backed by fundamentals."

Persons: Donald Trump's, —, Donald, Trump, Michele Costola, Costola, Imran Yousaf, Warren Buffett, Yousaf, it's, TMTG, they'll, Devin Nunes Organizations: Trump Media & Technology Group, Service, Bloomberg, Foscari University of Venice, Kean University, GameStop Locations: Tuesday's

☆ Israeli Artist Shuts Venice Biennale Exhibit, Calls for Cease-Fire in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Alex Marshall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Since February thousands of pro-Palestinian activists have tried in vain to get the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s most prestigious international art exhibitions, to ban Israel over its conduct of the war in Gaza. But on Tuesday, when the Biennale’s international pavilions open for a media preview, the doors to the Israel pavilion will nonetheless remain locked, at the behest of the artist and curators representing Israel. “The artist and curators of the Israeli pavilion will open the exhibition when a cease-fire and hostage release agreement is reached,” reads a sign the Israeli team said it planned to tape to the door of the pavilion. “I hate it,” Ruth Patir, the artist chosen to represent Israel, said in an interview about her decision not to open the exhibit she has been working on, “but I think it’s important.”

Persons: “, ” Ruth Patir Organizations: Venice Biennale, Israel Locations: Venice, Gaza, Israel

☆ Venice Biennale: Israeli representative Ruth Patir says she won’t open pavilion until hostage and ceasefire deal reached
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Nick Thompson | Benjamin Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Israel’s representative at Venice’s Biennale exhibition has said she won’t unveil the country’s pavilion until a hostage and ceasefire deal has been reached in Gaza. Artist Ruth Patir said the exhibit in the Italian city “will only open when the release of hostages and ceasefire agreement happens” in a statement shared on Instagram Tuesday. Patir said she would raise her voice “with those I stand with in their scream, ceasefire now, bring the people back from captivity. A petition signed by more than 23,000 people had recently called for Israel to be excluded from the international cultural exhibition, as calls for truce and an independently Palestinian state have grown. Israeli attacks in Gaza have since killed at least 33,797 Palestinians and injured another 76,465 people, according to the Ministry of Health there.

Persons: CNN —, won’t, Ruth Patir, Patir, Mira Lapidot, Tamar Margalit, ” Patir, “, ” Organizations: CNN, CNN — Israel’s, Venice’s, Venice Biennale, Hamas, Ministry of Health, Rights Watch, Oxfam Locations: Gaza, Italian, Venice, Israel, Patir

☆ La Scala Opera Taps an Italian to Be Its Next Leader
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, one of the world’s most prestigious and storied opera houses, announced Tuesday that its next leader would be Fortunato Ortombina, who is currently general director of Venice’s opera house, Teatro La Fenice. Ortombina will succeed Dominique Meyer, a respected French impresario who has run La Scala since 2020 and who previously led the Vienna State Opera. “A decision has finally been reached,” Mayor Giuseppe Sala of Milan, who is the chairman of the foundation that runs the opera house, said Tuesday after a board meeting. The appointment of Ortombina ended months of speculation and whispers in the opera world. “After three foreign general directors, Stéphane Lissner, Alexander Pereira and Dominique Meyer, an Italian returns to La Scala,” he said in a statement, which noted that the practice of Italian opera singing had recently been added to UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list.

Persons: Fortunato Ortombina, Ortombina, Dominique Meyer, Giuseppe Sala of, Gennaro Sangiuliano, “, Stéphane Lissner, Alexander Pereira, ” Organizations: Scala, Teatro La Fenice, La Scala, Vienna State Opera, ” Locations: Milan, French, Giuseppe Sala of Milan

☆ Match Made in Venice: Tadao Ando and Zeng Fanzhi
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Andrew Maerkle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An American institution sponsors an exhibition by a Chinese artist in collaboration with a Japanese architect at a centuries-old Venetian building. This is the kind of far-flung constellation that can only come together during the Venice Biennale, when the historic Italian lagoon city turns into contemporary art’s grandest stage. While the Biennale itself is famed for its national pavilions, scores of collateral exhibitions, some organized independently, proliferate. Ando sculpts intricate yet airy interiors, enlivened by dramatic voids or unexpected lightwells, out of slabs of concrete. And the matchmaker is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is sponsoring a collaborative exhibition in the impressive space of the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in the Cannaregio district of Venice.

Persons: Zeng Fanzhi, Tadao Ando, Pritzker, Ando, “ Zeng Fanzhi Organizations: Venice Biennale, Angeles County Museum of Art, Scuola, della Misericordia Locations: American, Venice, Beijing, Osaka, della, Cannaregio

☆ Faith Ringgold Perfectly Captured the Pitch of America’s Madness
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Holland Cotter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Faith Ringgold, who died Saturday at 93, was an artist of protean inventiveness. Painter, sculptor, weaver, performer, writer and social justice activist, she made work in which the personal and political were tightly bonded. And much of that work gained popularity among audiences that didn’t necessarily frequent galleries and museums. But the art establishment, as defined by major museums, big-bucks auction houses and a few talent-hogging galleries, never knew quite what to do with it, or with her. In 2016, the Museum of Modern Art finally brought Ringgold into its collection with the acquisition of several pieces from early in her career.

Persons: Faith Ringgold, Painter, Ringgold Organizations: Museum of Modern Art Locations: Venice

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