Armchair traveler alert! Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz report on their trip to the Venice Biennale and then on down the boot, with notable stops in Verona, Parma, Roma and Sardinia.
Read MoreArtblog contributor Susan Isaacs shares her experiences with traveling to the biennales in Venice and Jerusalem.
Read MoreIn this edition of Ask Artblog, Beth Heinly answers a question about the difference between protest and posture in relation to this year’s Whitney Biennial and the forced resignation of Warren Kanders from the Whitney Museum Board.
Read MoreRoberta talks about Documenta 14 and the two tours she took with members of the “chorus,” people trained to facilitate discussion and ask questions rather than answer them. The quinquennial art festival is up in Kassel, Germany, until September 17, 2017.
Read MoreBegun in 1955, the quinquennial art festival, Documenta, in Kassel, sprawls across the small German city in venues large and small, some easy to find and some, more challenging. Documenta 14, this year’s version, involves multitudes of artists and two cities, Kassel, Germany and Athens, Greece. The curatorial theme is displacement, dispossession, power, colonialism and restitution. Some art lovers feel that theme personally, as they struggle to find the art, get lost and experience their own lack of power. Roberta visited and reports.
Read MoreNews of Artblog favorite artists, Jayson Musson, Dona Nelson, Becky Suss, plus a protest of a Dana Schutz painting, some great opportunities and even more news, in today’s action-packed News Post.
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