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...Back in venal St Mark’s at Espace Louis Vuitton, in Je est un autre, 82-year-old French street artist/existentialist provocateur Ernest Pignon-Ernest, precursor of Banksy, displays exquisitely drawn torn...
...Giacometti is not the only modern master Sugimoto has been associated with: his Seascapes series, ethereal images of where the ocean meets the sky, is often compared to Mark Rothko’s paintings and they were...
...I have plenty of puff in my lungs, but time and again, when I reach the eight-metre mark, the pressure in my ears becomes too painful, and I’m forced back to the surface....
...If St Mark’s Square is the “drawing room of Europe”, the adage evokes different scenes now....
...Frieze’s commitment marks the first time that an art fair has provided funding for any national pavilion, confirms its London director Eva Langret, and highlights the market’s growing desire to be seen supporting...
...It marks a change of pace for Garrone, better known for tough crime dramas such as Gomorrah and piquant fantasies such as Tale of Tales and Pinocchio....
...The newest of these, Violino d’Oro, which opened in November, sits in a mint situation on the rio di San Moise, a few hundred metres from St Mark’s Square....
...Meloni, who ardently supports Ukraine’s cause, travelled to Kyiv on Saturday to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion....
...It was a hot day in St Mark’s Square. Mid-August, a stupid time to visit unless you like mosquitoes and crowds. We traipsed about, our moods darkening in the midday glare....
...What has been consistent is Lokko’s interest in the intersection between race and space, from her novels and her 2000 anthology, White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture, to the graduate school...
...Although it also includes works made from Lego, the Venice show marks the apotheosis of Ai’s bond with Murano glass....
...An extraordinary event known as La Macchina di Santa Rosa has taken place here every year since 1258 to mark the funeral procession of a revered local saint....
...Zegna and Bertelli of Prada, for example, are on a self-proclaimed “mission” to protect “Made In Italy”, a merchandise mark that indicates that a product is entirely manufactured in Italy, from its design...
...Centred on “Oratorio”, the triptych featuring abandoned babies and traumatised mothers, dramatising violence and intimacy in hard/soft pastel marks, this is painting aglow and shocking — and highlighting...
The British-Indian artist has made his mark across the world with his sculptures. Now he’s about to leave a lasting impression on Venice. Just don’t call it his legacy
...This week marks the opening of 125 Newbury Street in New York, the pet project of Arne Glimcher, founder of Pace....
...Geography has a lot to do with how you perceive a colour, he says — the light that inspired Titian in the Veneto is totally different from, say, the light of Texas....
...Who Lionard Luxury Real Estate Loft apartment, San Marco, €1.5m Where In San Marco, 100m from St Mark’s Square....
...At San Servolo, its quiet parklands only a vaporetto stop from St Mark’s, a cadaverous gentlemen showed me round the old asylum, now a dusty museum....
...It was the brainchild of Mark and Lindy O’Hare, who own Thorington Estate, and was built during lockdown from sweet chestnut wood coppiced and milled on the estate....
...He will have three more editions to make his mark as Venice’s dance, theatre and music festivals bring in new directors every four years....
...It was a mark of the talents of both Piccioli and his craftspeople that these clothes never felt like bastardised, dimmed echoes of original artworks, but vibrant reincarnations of them....
...Nicola Ussardi made a living selling souvenirs to tourists in St Mark’s Square before losing his job when the pandemic struck....
...His book Cooking for Friends marks the furthest point my cooking ever reaches. It marks the moves in each recipe most likely to go wrong....
...The dominance of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in the 1950s-60s — biennale prizes to Alexander Calder, Mark Tobey, Robert Rauschenberg — must be seen in cold war context....
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