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And you think it's hot where you are this summer! The artisan in the image above is one of Maestro Giorgio Giuman's three sons ...

Actually, it's within the walled garden of the Querini Stampalia Museum where the Chinese artist Tong Yanrunan is painting an open ai...

I must admit that my first sight of the ongoing installation alongside the Grand Canal in Campo San Vio of what I've since learned is...

At times one or both of "Work Songs" co-creators also performed: in the above image, Jason Moran , on piano, with Jamet Pittman ...

Two readers of Das Kapital Oratorio rehearse in the unfinished Arena performance area of the Central Pavilion in May Paradoxically, th...

An image of the Das Kapital Oratorio taken during the Vernissage One of the works in this latest edition of the Venice Biennale that h...

An image of Bill Viola's plasma screen video Water Martyr This is the last weekend to catch an exhibition of 15 contemporary artwor...

Dancers perform Islands Revisited by the choreographer Salva Sanchis in front of an appreciative audience--and, behind it, the palazzo w...

Annamaria Ajmone turns the San Trovaso squero into her own stage There are many reasons not to come to Venice right now--the immense he...

The entrance hall of Ca' Barbaro, with video by Almagul Menlibayeva on right wall The exhibition entitled The Union of Fire and Wate...

A large stucco ceiling in one of the palazzo's stairwells Sometimes it seems that one of the biggest challenges for art works displa...

Both Ca' Barbaro and--almost directly across the Grand Canal from it--Palazzo Contarini-Polignac are hosting Biennale exhibitions fro...

The exhibition pieces start before you even enter the Giardini proper: this one (which I had no time to find out anything about) see...