Venice was “too beautiful to be painted,” according to Claude Monet. Yet he painted the Italian city anyway.
To Nietzsche, seeking a synonym for music, the answer was “always and only Venice.” But it is a painter’s city. Lodged between water and sky, the seaport that calls itself Serenissima is an unending ...
The Venice Biennale is on the tip of everyone’s tongue, but with all the frenzy surrounding the controversial exhibition (see Okwui Enwezor’s 56th Venice Biennale Is Morose, Joyless, and Ugly), there ...