In 1997 Marina Abramović was the first woman to win the Biennale’s Golden Lion Best Artist award for Balkan Baroque, a gruelling performance work where she sat in a dark basement scrubbing bloody cow ...
Marina Abramović is a figure of firsts for Venice. The artist fell in love with the city as a teenager on a trip to the ...
With her new exhibition, 'Transforming Energy', the art provocateur invites us all to feel what lingers beyond the visible ...
Deviina Dalmia, who is presently at the Venice Biennale, gives us a low-down on some of the interesting stuff happening there ...
A pile of plaster bones greeted visitors at a preview in Venice on Monday of Marina Abramovic's latest exhibition, while ...
It was the poet Shelley who compared Venice’s beauty to ‘fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven’. Milky-green, lagoon-fed canals are lined by churches and palaces plastered in an inimitable palette of ...
In the Middle Ages, Titian painted colors that glow even today as the most perfectly bright pigments. Once, Alphonso d’ Este, the Duke of Ferrara, third husband of Lucrezia Borgia, bargaining after ...
No. 56. Judith With the Head of Holofernes. Supposed by Titian. The inspiration of an heroic deed sits upon the countenance of this beautiful woman. The horror of her attendant, the ghastly head of ...