Tag Archives: Venice Biennale

“Art in America” with Ahmed Alsoudani

By sarah | Published: June 10, 2011
A small excerpt of an interview I did with Ahmed A., who was in the Iraq Pavillion at Venice. He draws and paints—successfully—on the SAME canvas. You can read more on the newsstand. He’s pretty amazing. The NYTIMES said this, and (cringe-worthy) this. Too bad on that last one. I think I got the real scoop! Just to [...]
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Shifts of [mental] scale encouraged, as Venice Biennale opens tomorrow.

By sarah | Published: May 31, 2011
OK. I am not on a plane bound for Venice.  I am, instead, in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, looking at bonsai trees; I imagine them as small-scale forests that can teach us a lot. Nope, not feeling the burn at all of missing out on all those opening receptions and parties—invitations to which arrive in my [...]
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Say it with Words

By sarah | Published: February 5, 2010
Gotta love this; from Chinese artist Liu Ding. She was in the last Venice Biennale. Photo from VVORK blog.
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Rolling homage

By sarah | Published: November 29, 2009
This, by Iván Navarro, whose show is coming up December 10 at Paul Kasmin, Chelsea. This, by way of explanation, from Kasmin’s press release: “Die” (2009) is the second of Navarro’s sculptures to respond to the American sculptor Tony Smith’s famous six-foot steel cube, “Die” (1962). Smith’s sculpture was designed to match human scale; he claimed that [...]
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