Venice Biennale

April 22, 2018
Earth Day is celebrated – maybe “acknowledged” is a better word – on 22 April.

September 4, 2017
Architect, theorist, and designer Aldo Rossi died on 4 September 1997 in Milan, the city where he spent a good portion of his career.

September 3, 2017
Art Films, Films by Artists at Venice International Film Festival The 74th Venice International Film Festival , organized through the Venice Biennale , opened on 30 August and runs through 9 September 2017.

June 25, 2017
Roberto Cuoghi at the Venice Biennale Roberto Cuoghi’s Imitazione di Cristo (2017) is certainly one of the darker features at a Biennale that has garnered much criticism for being too “hippy,” cheerful, and politically tone-deaf.

June 11, 2017
Lara Favaretto at Skulptur Projekte Münster With the openings this weekend of both Skulptur Projekte Münster and documenta 14 , the contemporary art world enjoys, along with the ongoing Venice Biennale , a rare trifecta of the major continental exhibitions.

May 7, 2017
A site-specific installation combining high-definition video projections and the buildings, public areas, and lagoon environments of Venice opens today – 7 May 2017 – in advance of the Biennale di Venezia , which gets underway later this week.

December 18, 2016
The Galleria Alessandra Bonomo in Rome is the site of a new installation by Joan Jonas designed specifically for the space.

November 19, 2016
Artists for Italian Pavilion at Venice Biennale Named Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Roberto Cuoghi, and Adelita Husni-Bey will represent Italy at the 2017 Biennale di Venezia , the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism announced on 14 November.

Artists for Italian Pavilion at Venice Biennale Named Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Roberto Cuoghi, and Adelita Husni-Bey will represent Italy at the 2017 Biennale di Venezia , the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism announced on 14 November.

October 7, 2016
Italo-Argentine artist Lucio Fontana died on 7 October 1968.

August 21, 2015
Evangelina Alciati – the first female painter to be admitted as a student to the Accademia Albertina in Turin – was born on this day in 1883.