During the opening week of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, our team navigated Venice’s labyrinthine network of pathways, palazzos and squares, covering more than 100,000 steps, to visit the main exhibition, national pavilions, and an extensive programme of collateral exhibitions, events, and special projects across the city. Across both the international exhibition and the national pavilions, artists responded in diverse ways to curator Koyo Kouoh’s theme, In Minor Keys, which saw a focus on smaller, and careful undercurrents that impact our daily lives. The following selection highlights some of the most compelling presentations and cultural moments...

In collaboration with Ab-Anbar gallery, Artvisor is pleased to present Rome–Tehran: Parallel Avantgardes, opening on June 4th, an exhibition tracing the artistic dialogues and resonances that emerged between Italy and Iran from the 1950s to the 1970s.  In a brief moment between the 1953 coup and the 1979 revolution in Iran, dialogues and exchanges between Italy and Iran heightened. The exchanges were driven by institutional infrastructures: academies of fine arts in Rome, Florence, and Venice; international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale; and transnational networks of galleries, critics, and patrons. Despite their different trajectories, one marked by the aftermath of...

Andy Warhol: Family Album, currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, brings together 732 Polaroids taken between 1972 and 1973. Drawn from one of six Holson albums that Andy Warhol assembled as a personal archive, the exhibition offers an intimate view of the artist’s daily life. The photographs range from portraits of friends, collaborators and public figures to images taken at his home in Montauk, scenes from his travels in Europe and snapshots of his dog Archie. Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol and Archie, 1973 Few American artists have shaped modern visual culture as profoundly as Andy Warhol....

Times Square Space presented HARDCORE COTTAGECORE, a solo exhibition by Tom Bull that emerged from a month-long residency at Maison Monna, a recently opened creative guesthouse and cultural space in Old Chatham, New York. Developed during the residency, the exhibition brought together paintings, sculptures and video works shaped by Bull’s longstanding interest in Shaker design and its emphasis on utility, craftsmanship and communal life. Presented during Frieze New York, the exhibition continued Bull’s investigation into the uneasy relationship between urban and rural cultures. Growing up in England’s rural Midlands, he became acutely aware of the gap between the realities of...

A major survey of Barry X Ball, will be presented at the historic Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, opening on 9 May and coinciding with the opening of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Titled The Shape of Time and curated by Bob Nickas, the exhibition will feature 23 artworks, with most of these works being shown to the public for the first time. The exhibition will highlight sculptures from five distinct series, each installed in carefully selected locations within the basilica, activating the space through a dialogue between past and present. Situated on the...

On 12 May, from 7–9pm, Piero Tomassoni joins Founder and Editor of YES & NO Magazine Cassius Matthias for a conversation at the Embassy of Austria Washington DC. Together, they will explore the enduring impact of postwar and avant-garde Austrian artists and filmmakers on the development of American visual culture. Drawing from YES & NO Kino+Film Austria, including Opus One and Opus Two—featuring essay contributions by Tomassoni and leading voices in the field—the discussion traces a transatlantic dialogue that has shaped both experimental cinema and contemporary art. From the radical gestures of postwar Vienna to the emergence of the U.S....

We recently spoke with Sky TG24 from the London Book Fair, in a series of conversations organised by the Il Libro Possibile festival and the Italian Cultural Institute London. The discussion centred on the importance of literature and culture in maintaining a healthy, open-minded society, and the dangers of dropping literacy rates in the global political climate. Watch the interview on our Youtube channel.

Last month we had the pleasure of inaugurating YARD, a large room within The Long Now. Saatchi Gallery at 40, the institution’s 40th anniversary exhibition.  YARD is curated by Philippa Adams and Piero Tomassoni around the eponymous installation by American artist Allan Kaprow, placed in dialogue with monumental works by major British artists Conrad Shawcross and Christopher Le Brun. Originally conceived in 1961 in New York, Kaprow’s Yard is a seminal moment in the history of contemporary art and a turning point in the field of spatial and participatory practices. Since then, the work has been exhibited and reinvented numerous...

We are delighted to announce Anni Luce, a new exhibition by Marco Tirelli opening at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, curated by Mario Codognato. The solo marks the latest chapter in the artist’s long and rigorous investigation into the metaphysics of image and form. Conceived specifically for the museum’s sequence of galleries, the presentation unfolds as a single installation composed of forty-two paintings, forming what the artist describes as a continuous visual cycle. Anni Luce will open on 17 March at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, coinciding with the inauguration that same night of a major exhibition dedicated to Mario Schifano, also on view until July. The exhibition forms part of the institution’s...