The sign of the exhibition, put on the outside of the building on theGrand Canal, is a huge red dog-shaped puppet. It is by the American Jeff Koons, one of the most sensational “phenomena” of the international art market, together with the English Damien Hirst and the Italian Maurizio Cattelan, (...)

Pontus Hulten gets to Venice after many years from his hometown Stockholm, and he comes with the new role of collector. One hundred and fifty works, chosen from a collection counting more than four hundred, will be visible in an exhibition curated by Stefano Cecchetto at Palazzo Franchetti in (...)

Some thirty films and videos, many of which brand new, five intense days of meetings and screenings (one more compared to last year), famous hosts (from Olympic canoe champion Josefa Idem to Italian writer Daniele Del Giudice), the best from all Venetian festivals, competitions and workshops (...)

The data used to prepare the report are those gathered by the website www.agendavenezia.org, (a product of the Venice Foundation) that since 2002 documents day by day the agenda of recreational and cultural activities in the Venice area, and that allowed the census of all events which took (...)

The famous Venetian sculptor celebrates his 50 years of artistic activity, creating an event collateral to that of the 51st Biennale of Venice. The exhibition features approximately forty installations, hosted in a peculiar and innovative space, some of which were created on purpose for the (...)

The artistic project of The Wandering Sculpture, which has now come to its IV edition, was born from a consideration about the meaning of Italo Calvino’s reflections on lightness, that he considered an intrinsic value of the work of art, the reflection of a way of seeing the world. Lo Greco’s (...)

Essential in its two main shows organized by the Spanish directors Maria de Corral and Rosa Martinez , but rich in collateral events, permeating all city’s spaces, islands included, with a sometimes exaggerate density which is nonetheless symbol of a great vitality: the 51th Biennale Art (...)

"Brancusi was a wonderful little man, bearded, with dark and sharp eyes, he was somewhere in the middle between a smart peasant and a real divinity". With such words Peggy Guggenheim describes, in her biography published in Italy by Rizzoli, the Romanian artist, which she met in Paris during (...)