Tag: Venice

Melissa McGill – interview: ‘One of my main influences is water’

The multimedia artist reveals how a two-year stay in Venice shaped her career and why water features so often in her works, and explains her use of traditions and personal reflections to bring people together to address climate change
The Renaissance Cities: Art in Florence, Rome and Venice by Norbert Wolf – book review

Well-researched, accessible and bringing new insights to the works of the period, this is not a book to be rushed. Delvings into the complexities of this intriguing era and how it shaped art, Wolf instils the desire to know more
Milton Avery: The Late Portraits

Focusing on works done in the final four years of Avery’s career, these portraits depict the people and motifs closest to him
Edmund de Waal: Psalm

In a two-part exhibition, the artist has used his trademark porcelain vessels, two buildings of great significance and a library of books to trace a universal story of exile and translation
John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing

Marking the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth, this exhibition, the first of many across the UK this year, celebrates the artist-critic-collector’s intentional legacy, the Guild of St George, and his lessons in using looking and drawing as conduits to understanding
A beautiful thing: Sauerbruch Hutton’s M9 Museum in Mestre opens

Italy’s first all-digital history museum, M9, has opened across from Venice. With its sleek, ceramic-tiled buildings and inspired public spaces, its architect, Sauerbruch Hutton, has made quite a statement
Marino Marini: Visual Passions

At the home of his iconic equestrian sculpture, The Angel of the City, this retrospective of the Italian sculptor Marino Marini explores the breadth of his practice and range of his influences
Sickert in Venice. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 2009

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 4 March 2009–7 June 2009
Carlo Cardazzo – a new vision for art

1 November 2008 – 1 March 2009 Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
50th Venice Biennale

The 100th anniversary this year of the Venice Biennale will probably not be its last. But then it’s a good opportunity to call it a century, with the 5oth Biennale creaking, bleeping and glitzing along