Tag: venice
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At the Central Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale – part 1
In this post and the following, we will be sharing some of the more remarkable and intriguing works we saw at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice (Biennale Arte di Venezia, 2024). This isn’t our first time visiting it—we also attended the 56th Biennale Arte in 2015 and shared our experiences from that visit…
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Vintage posters advertising the Biennale di Venezia
Last year in September, we attended the 60th Biennale Arte in Venice, a celebration of the visual arts that concluded its six-month run on November 24, 2024. Over the coming weeks, we’ll share in a series of posts highlighting the works we saw and liked. Let’s start with some music. As a fan of posters,…
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Looking back at our trips in 2024, Part 2
Happy New Year ! On this blog, it’s become a tradition to look back on some of the places we’ve traveled to over the past year. Let’s begin with a jazzy classical piece. Click ▶ to play In the second half of 2024, we made one overseas trip to Europe. Our entry point was Heathrow…
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Wandering into The Biennale Library in Venice
This is the third post in a series on public libraries that we came across during our travels. The public libraries in the earlier posts are in Stuttgart and Melbourne. Let’s start with some music. We and IT visited Venice for the 60th Biennale Arte, which runs from April to November 2024 (since its inception…
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刘若望 Liu Ruowang’s wolves came to Venice Biennale 2015
The outdoor installation by Liu Ruowang (刘若望, 1977) is known as 狼来了 (The Wolves Are Coming), created in 2008 and shown previously in Beijing’s 798 art space, New Zealand, and now in Venice. Click here, here and here to see more about the Venice Biennale. The wolves are installed in the Telecom Italy Future Center located outside…
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徐冰 Xu Bing’s phoenixes at the Arsenale, Venice Biennale 2015
Another work we saw in Venice that is worth mentioning. Xu Bing (Chinese: 徐冰, born 1965) is a Chinese-born artist who lived in the United States for eighteen years. Currently residing in Beijing, he used to serve as the vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The two installations – The Phoenix – weighing 8…