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Queer Artists Brought Pain, History, and Hope to the 60th Venice Biennale

Peruvian artist Violeta Quispe Courtesy of La Biennale de Venezia Deep within the cavernous Arsenale di Venezia, amidst hundreds of works on view at the 60th edition of the Biennale, two paintings by Peruvian artist Violeta Quispe offer an invitation into a queer, gender-breaking multiverse. The works — El Matrimonio de la Chola (2022) and …

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Artist Bertille Bak’s Video Portraits of Workers Are Turning Heads in Europe

Bertille Bak. Courtesy the artist In Bertille Bak’s five-part video installation Mineur Mineur (2022), children from Bolivia, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, and Thailand pretend to get dressed to go for work in the mines. Then these kid performers act out their labor, getting dressed in mining gear before heading off to their jobs and waving their …

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The ARTnews Culture (and Food) Lover’s Guide to Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona, Spain Jim Bennett/Getty Images. Barcelona, the crown jewel of the Catalonia region of Spain, is a city that weaves an enchanting tapestry of culture, art, history, and of course food. Nestled along a sun-kissed Mediterranean shore, this vibrant city mesmerizes visitors. I’m admittedly biased, Barcelona having been a favorite city of mine for years …

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Climate Activists Target Stonehenge, Justine Trudeau Urges Pope to Return Indigenous Artifacts, German Politicians Call for Boycott of Exhibition, and More: Morning Links for June 20, 2024

Niamh Lynch and Rajan Naidu of Just Stop Oil spray orange powder paint on the Stonehenge monument. Courtesy of Just Stop Oil To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES STONEHENGE VANDALISM. Two Just Stop Oil climate activists sprayed orange powder paint on Stonehenge on Wednesday, reports Harrison Jacobs for ARTnews. The two demonstrators …

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Climate Change Protesters Arrested After Spraying Stonehenge with Orange Paint

Niamh Lynch and Rajan Naidu of Just Stop Oil spray orange powder paint on the Stonehenge monument. Courtesy of Just Stop Oil Two protesters with Just Stop Oil sprayed Stonehenge in England with orange powder paint on Wednesday, according to a video posted by the activist group on X. The protesters, identified as 21-year-old Oxford …

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Florida Gov. DeSantis Vetoes $32 M. in Arts and Culture Grants from 2025 Budget

MIAMI, FLORIDA – APRIL 01: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks about a toll highway relief program during a press conference held at the Greater Miami Expressway Agency on April 01, 2024, in Miami, Florida. The Governor announced a second consecutive year of a Toll Relief Program, which is expected to cut the toll rates of …

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Ron DeSantis Slashes Arts Funding, Paris’s Centre Pompidou Defends Renovation Plans, and more: Morning Links for June 21, 2024

Ron DeSantis. Photo Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Headlines FLORIDA SLASHES ARTS BUDGET. Governor Ron DeSantis has vetoed over $32 million in arts and culture grants that had already been approved by the state legislature for next year’s budget, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The cuts to two arts grants programs that support nonprofits throughout the …

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In Booming Bozeman, Montana, Tinworks Art Aims to Reimagine the American West

Agnes Denes’s Wheatfield—An Inspiration. The seed is in the ground (2024) sprouting in May. Photo Jenny Moore/Courtesy the artist and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects One of the many different kinds of development underway in Bozeman, Montana—a small city that since the pandemic began has been a staple of stories about ongoing urban exodus and …

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Dior Pays Homage to Faith Ringgold in Runway Show at Paris’s Musée Rodin

Dior’s latest runway show, at Paris’s Musée Rodin, featured reproductions of Faith Ringgold’s 1971 work Woman Free Yourself. Photo Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri has made a point of including women artists in her runway shows, shining a light on works by Judy Chicago, Joana Vasconcelos, Isabella Ducrot, …

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