Cecilia Alemani, who will lead next year’s art extravaganza, wants a Biennale that grabs attention beyond the opening-week parties.
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The Masterpieces That Napoleon Stole, and How Some Went Back
His art seizures paved the way for similar French excesses in Africa a century later. Yet the return of some treasures after his defeat set a model for museums today.
Gallery Weekend Brings London’s Art Scene Back to Life
The event, spread out through the city’s dealerships, brought a model tried elsewhere to one of the sector’s major capitals.
A New Contemporary Art Museum Aims to Heal a City’s Wounds
Twelve years after a powerful earthquake devastated L’Aquila, in central Italy, the building’s inauguration is a sign of recovery. But there is still work to do.
Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning.
Last fall, with the Medici Chapel in Florence operating on reduced hours because of Covid-19, scientists and restorers completed a secret experiment: They unleashed grime-eating bacteria on the artist’s masterpiece marbles.
‘Good for the Soul’: Giant Murals Turn São Paulo Into Open Air Gallery
Officials in São Paulo, Brazil, once hounded graffiti artists and muralists, treating them as vandals. Now the city champions, and even funds, their art, and it’s everywhere and supersized.
A Self-Styled ‘Troublemaker’ Creates a Different Paris Museum
Contemporary art owned by the billionaire François Pinault is displayed beneath the rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce and frescoes of a colonialist past.
Hong Kong Protests, Silenced on the Streets, Surface in Artworks
Even as the authorities restrict speech in the Chinese territory, local artists are subtly rendering the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations in paintings, installations and other media.
Pamela Kraft, 77, Dies; Arts Magnet and Champion of Indigenous Rights
She immersed herself in New York’s creative underground, then shifted to globetrotting activism for decades as the founder of Tribal Link.
After 500 Years, an Ancient Bronze Hand Is Rejoined to a Finger
Researchers still don’t know how a finger belonging to a colossal statue of Emperor Constantine went missing, but this week, it was finally reattached in Rome.