Author: Naz Baydar

Josèfa Ntjam’s collateral exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale challenges Western ways of categorizing the world by blending mythology, marine biology, and science fiction. The exhibition, titled Swell of Spæc(i)es,

The Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, located in San Giorgio, is a stunning 16th-century Benedictine church designed by the renowned architect Andrea Palladio. It features a white marble façade and

Jean Cocteau, known for his poetic approach, showcased his multidisciplinary skills through films like “La Belle et la Bête” and “Orphée”, as well as drawings, paintings, and ceramics. The exhibition

Italy’s Massimo Bartolini has transformed the largest pavilion in the Arsenale into a unique sensory experience. Using sound and scaffolding, Bartolini creates an industrial garden maze filled with handmade organ

“…to take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality” as Susan Sontag once wrote. Peter Hujar, a lesser-known photographer from the downtown scene of 1970s New York, is

Ethiopian artist Elias Sime’s exhibition "Dichotomy ፊት አና ጀርባ" opens this week at Tanarte in Castello, Venice. Sime, known for his sculptural paintings or collages made from materials like e-waste

Taiwan Everyday War, Yuan Goang-Ming Palazzo delle Prigioni Yuan Goang-Ming’s Everyday War exhibition at Taiwan’s Venice presentation during the Venice Biennale captures the essence of our current uncertain times. The

Shahzia Sikander’s exhibition “Collective Behaviour” at Palazzo Van Axel is a stunning combination of art and setting at this year’s Biennale. Displayed throughout the palace are works from Sikander’s 30-year

Daniel Arsham’s “Venice 3024” exhibition at Chiesa di Santa Caterina in Venice blurs the boundaries between epochs with his unique art. Arsham’s castings with crystals growing in them represent the

The Tbilisi Massacre of 9 April 1989, when Soviet troops violently quashed a peaceful protest in the city, remains a poignant memory for the people of Georgia. This date serves