The Venice Biennale, art and the refugee crisis

In 1992, amid the collapse of socialism and the tumultuous breakup of Yugoslavia, a group of artists came together to create a utopian fictional state. Part art project, part political statement, the state –called NSK– reconsidered what a modern globalized nation could be. It was rooted in no single territory […]

Pollock’s Rare Trip to the Venice Biennale

Roberta Smith wrote in “The New York Times, on May 7, 2015, that “Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural’: Energy Made Visible” “at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in the Venice Biennale is a small show built around a leviathan. “Mural” is the 20-foot-wide breakthrough painting that resulted in 1943 when Guggenheim commissioned Pollock […]