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“Well, I was the last one to jump off the house.”
Artist Mike Bouchet describes watching his large-scale sculpture created for the Venice Biennale sink in the city’s waterways: “Once it starts to go… I was surprised, kind of shocked. But then it’s kind of like, Wow, what do I do? You have to start looking at it; I look at it sideways. How is it [...]
Steve McQueen’s Giardini
My severest disappointment in not attending this year’s Venice Biennale is missing the premiere of Steve McQueen’s new film Giardini. McQueen, to my mind one of the best artists of his generation, shot the half-hour-long film in the public garden that houses the national pavilions used during the Biennale. What he depicts, though, is the [...]
