# venice biennale (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover venice biennale. Page: Feed: --- ## [Artwork of the Month: Keane’s Big Eyes](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/artwork-of-the-month-keanes-big-eyes) _2026-08-20 · Sandra Klimovic · artXchange Global Newsletter_ When the story is a part of the art ## [Criteria for Evaluating Art](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/criteria-for-evaluating-art) _2026-08-12 · Sandra Klimovic · artXchange Global Newsletter_ You’ve probably stood in front of an artwork more than once and thought, “Even my grandmother could paint better than that,” then clutched your head after seeing its four-digit price tag. ## [Jack Scott on Absurdity, Enormousness, and Nothingness](https://www.artforum.com/features/jack-scott-on-absurdity-enormousness-and-nothingness-1234756737/) _2026-08-11 · Alexander Jovanovich · Features_ "I fill a surface up with marks until it makes the illusion of an empty space—I fill it up to make emptiness." ## [Human Computers : A history of labour-intensive computing. Followed by 6 self-defence protocols](https://we-make-money-not-art.com/human-computers-a-history-of-labour-intensive-computing-followed-by-6-self-defence-protocols/) _2026-08-10 · Regine · We Make Money Not Art_ A toolkit of experiments aimed at breaking away from AI, by challenging its extractivist geopolitics, its algorithmic logic, its reductionist forms of learning and its technolanguage ## [Mommy Issues: From Devotion to Sexual Liberation](https://www.artforum.com/features/motherhood-devotional-tondos-sexual-liberation-raphael-1234756568/) _2026-08-06 · Katherine Rochester · Features_ Depicting motherhood proves that “the genre exacts its toll regardless of how rigorous the treatment” ## [From Medusa to Nvidia: On the Algorithm’s Primal Scene](https://www.artforum.com/features/jan-tumlir-jeffrey-stuker-algorithm-1234756309/) _2026-08-05 · Samuel Wilken · Features_ Tracing the “godly, biological, and machinic” origins of contemporary computation ## [Art History for Intellectuals: Baroque](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/art-history-for-intellectuals-baroque) _2026-08-05 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ On the Church's most effective persuasion machine – and the authorship question that four hundred years of connoisseurship still hasn't closed ## [The Venice Art Biennale: Quietly criticising Israel](https://we-make-money-not-art.com/the-venice-art-biennale-quietly-criticising-israel/) _2026-07-24 · Regine · We Make Money Not Art_ Fortunately for anyone who abhors artwashing, the curating of the art biennial has made it impossible to ignore the crimes committed by Israel in Palestine and beyond ## [Artwork of the Month: The Opening of the Fifth Seal, El Greco](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/artwork-of-the-month-the-opening) _2026-07-22 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ How a 17th-Century Apocalypse Became the Blueprint for Cubism ## [XIA’s GRAVITY Finally Lands in Singapore](https://popspoken.com/music/2026/07/xias-gravity-finally-lands-in-singapore) _2026-07-22 · Patrick · Popspoken_ Concerts are remembered because they finally bring together an artist and fans who have spent years waiting for the same moment. ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ANK8BDyLVLqj) _2026-07-22 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [Basel's Metamodern Moment](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/basels-metamodern-moment) _2026-07-15 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ What the Fair Understood That the Biennale Forgot ## [Chua Mia Tee Leaves Behind More Than Paintings](https://popspoken.com/arts/2026/07/chua-mia-tee-leaves-behind-more-than-paintings) _2026-07-15 · Patrick · Popspoken_ He painted the nation, one ordinary life at a time. ## [Asian Theatre & Film Round Up: Six Productions Worth Talking About](https://popspoken.com/arts/2026/07/asian-theatre-film-round-up-six-productions-worth-talking-about) _2026-07-15 · Patrick · Popspoken_ New productions exploring everything from grief and artificial intelligence to virtual morality. ## [Saodat Ismailova on Ancient Forests and Collective Hallucinations](https://www.artforum.com/features/1000-words-saodat-ismailova-1234754348/) _2026-07-10 · Samuel Wilken · Features_ The artist and filmmaker discusses her film Amanat, and the forest that inspired it: Arslanbob. ## [Grab Awards Bond-Free Scholarships to Children of Driver-Partners](https://popspoken.com/asia/2026/07/grab-awards-bond-free-scholarships-to-children-of-driver-partners) _2026-07-09 · Michelle Lee · Popspoken_ Grab Singapore is continuing its investment in the families behind its platform workforce, awarding the 2026 Grab Emerald Circle Scholarship to 10 university students whose parents are Grab driver- or delivery-partners. The bond-free scholarship provides recipients with up to S$15,000 towards their university education, recognising not only strong academic performance but also leadership,… ## [Renaissance Art and Mannerism](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/renaissance-art-and-mannerism) _2026-07-08 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ Art History for Intellectuals ## [Singapore Yachting Festival Sets Sail Again in April 2027 After Another Strong Year](https://popspoken.com/lifestyle/2026/07/singapore-yachting-festival-sets-sail-again-in-april-2027-after-another-strong-year) _2026-07-08 · Michelle Lee · Popspoken_ Charting its next course. ## [From Celebrity Presidents to Capital Governance, Institutional Investors’ Considerations for the Creator Economy](https://popspoken.com/music/2026/07/from-celebrity-presidents-to-capital-governance-what-institutional-investors-should-consider) _2026-07-07 · Patrick · Popspoken_ Independent Press opinion. ## [Drake Threw Parties for Janices Everywhere](https://popspoken.com/music/2026/07/drake-threw-parties-for-janices-everywhere) _2026-07-07 · Patrick · Popspoken_ He Never Showed Up, But the Internet Did. ## [Venice Biennale: Wind orchestra, sperm banking, critical minerals and haunted tech](https://we-make-money-not-art.com/venice-biennale-wind-orchestra-sperm-banking-critical-minerals-and-haunted-tech/) _2026-07-06 · Regine · We Make Money Not Art_ Artists who engage with science and tech infiltrated yet again the Venice Biennale. Their works explored reproductive technology, online porn, extractivism, daimon in technological systems, automated economy, etc. ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3zf4VV82wG7Q) _2026-07-06 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Can you Own a Flower Motif?](https://popspoken.com/issues/2026/07/can-you-own-a-flower-motif) _2026-07-06 · Michelle Lee · Popspoken_ What the Louis Vuitton vs Molly Tea case says about branding in 2026. ## [Kaskade Headlines Zouk Las Vegas as ‘undux’ Signals a New Era for a Dance Music Icon](https://popspoken.com/music/2026/07/kaskade-headlines-zouk-las-vegas-as-undux-signals-a-new-era-for-a-dance-music-icon) _2026-07-06 · Patrick · Popspoken_ He continues to showcase why he remains one of the most respected and enduring figures in dance music. ## [Vietnam After Dark: The Rooftops, Hidden Bars and Luxury Escapes Worth Planning a Trip Around](https://popspoken.com/lifestyle/2026/07/vietnam-after-dark-the-rooftops-hidden-bars-and-luxury-escapes-worth-planning-a-trip-around) _2026-07-06 · Patrick · Popspoken_ Vietnam has long earned its reputation for extraordinary street food, buzzing cafés and spectacular natural landscapes. But once the sun goes down, the country’s cities reveal another side altogether — one filled with hidden speakeasies, rooftop cocktail bars, beachfront lounges and skyline views that rival some of Asia’s best nightlife destinations. From Hanoi’s Old Quarter \[…\] ## [Tohé Commaret on parallel realities, psychic ties, and Andean mythology](https://www.artforum.com/features/tohe-commaret-1000-words-thomas-patier-1234752512/) _2026-07-01 · Thomas Patier · Features_ The artist and filmmaker introduces "Mijitas," her new exhibition at Spike Island, Bristol ## [Blood, Salt, and Fury: Nalini Malani on her latest “Animation Chamber”](https://www.artforum.com/features/nalani-malani-on-venice-1000words-1234752653/) _2026-06-25 · Thomas Patier · Features_ Malani layers mythology, war, and colonial history at the Magazzini del Sale during the Venice Biennale ## [Artwork of the Month: The Arnolfini Portrait](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/artwork-of-the-month-the-arnolfini) _2026-06-24 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ Six centuries of art historians have stood in front of The Arnolfini Portrait and disagreed about what, precisely, is happening in it. ## [The Venice Biennale: Canicula. Oppressive temperatures and societal suffocation](https://we-make-money-not-art.com/the-venice-biennale-canicula-oppressive-temperatures-and-societal-suffocation/) _2026-06-22 · Regine · We Make Money Not Art_ Canícula, the “dog days of summer”, uses the physical and psychological strain of extreme heat as a metaphor for overwhelming conditions that threaten societal collapse amid excess and polycrisis ## [Time Travels: Jan van Eyck on Portraiture, Power, and the Face as Document](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/time-travels-jan-van-eyck-on-portraiture) _2026-06-17 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ Jan van Eyck was court painter to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and the most technically accomplished painter of the 15th century. ## [The Catfish Knows First: Alexandre Estrela on His Art of Seismic Anticipation](https://www.artforum.com/features/the-catfish-knows-first-alexandre-estrela-on-art-of-seismic-anticipation-1234752037/) _2026-06-10 · Pablo Larios · Features_ At Venice's Portuguese pavilion, planetary tremors drive a mise-en-scène of animal intuition and machine perception ## [Who Owns the Ancient World?](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-ancient-world) _2026-06-10 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ Repatriation Is Not a Museum Debate. It Is a Power Debate. ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/uqc1sSOevuwB) _2026-06-10 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [Exposing Violence: Media Practices and Aesthetics of Radical Truth](https://we-make-money-not-art.com/exposing-violence-media-practices-and-aesthetics-of-radical-truth/) _2026-06-09 · Regine · We Make Money Not Art_ How small groups and grassroots collectives can act for justice and leverage contemporary media to document violence. ## [Prehistoric Art · Ancient Art · Medieval Art](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/art-history-for-intellectuals) _2026-06-03 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ Prehistoric Art · Ancient Art · Medieval Art ## [The End of Neoliberal Art: Populism, Pluralism, and the Lessons of ’76](https://www.artforum.com/features/katy-siegel-1976-bicentennial-neoliberal-art-world-1234750788/) _2026-06-01 · Sophie Fox · Features_ If today’s art world appears trapped between oligarchy and institutional drift, the 1970s offer a revealing glimpse of another configuration ## [I Want More Space: Klara Liden’s Art of Public Disappearance](https://www.artforum.com/features/klara-liden-kunstwerke-kw-berlin-1234750791/) _2026-06-01 · Sophie Fox · Features_ "Liden’s most poignant messages, concerning the ongoing 'redactions' of public speech in Germany, are indirect" ## [The Last Kids of TV: Marc Kokopeli’s Art of Strange Sentimentality](https://www.artforum.com/features/marc-kokopeli-spotlight-theo-belci-1234750793/) _2026-06-01 · Sophie Fox · Features_ In his tender, darkly comic work, Kokopeli sends up millennials' wretched attempts to make contact with the media culture of their youth ## [Artwork of the month: The Woman They Called Venus](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/artwork-of-the-month-the-woman-they) _2026-05-27 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ On the Venus of Willendorf, a 30,000-year-old figurine, and the politics of naming the world's oldest art ## [50 Flags, 0 Diplomats: The Venice Biennale Is the Most Honest Geopolitics in the World](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/50-flags-0-diplomats-the-venice-biennale) _2026-05-21 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ The 61st Venice Biennale opened on 9 May. ## [Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica](https://we-make-money-not-art.com/project-a-black-planet-the-art-and-culture-of-panafrica/) _2026-05-21 · Regine · We Make Money Not Art_ A touring international exhibition examines the cultural manifestations and enduring influence of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to the present ## [Time Travels: She Had the Perfect Face – and She Knew It](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/time-travels-she-had-the-perfect) _2026-05-13 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ An imaginary conversation with Nefertiti on beauty, branding, and the business of a face that never ages. ## [Uncertainty as a field of action. An interview with Amanda Masha Caminals](https://we-make-money-not-art.com/uncertainty-as-a-field-of-action-an-interview-with-amanda-masha-caminals/) _2026-05-08 · Regine · We Make Money Not Art_ The subtitle of the first Climate Biennial, Rehearsing the Unexpected, captures the biennial’s central idea: learning to navigate moments like ours, when the present is shaky and the future uncertain ## [Before We Begin: What Art History Gets Wrong Before It Starts](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/before-we-begin-what-art-history) _2026-05-05 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ On calendars, canons, authorship, craft, and the strange alchemy of turning a sacred object into a museum piece ## [He Didn’t Copy Masterpieces. He Invented New Ones.](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/he-didnt-copy-masterpieces-he-invented) _2026-04-29 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ Beltracchi fooled the entire art world. For 40 years, his paintings hung in the world’s best museums. The market believed the story. ## [Time Travels: Andy Warhol on Influencer Economics](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/time-travels-andy-warhol-on-influencer) _2026-04-22 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ Welcome to Ornela’s Time Travels, where I talk to dead artists, writers, collectors, and occasionally chaotic personalities about power, patterns, and why we keep making the same mistakes with better technology. ## [Artwork of the Month: Jeff Koons and the Impossible Label](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/artwork-of-the-month-jeff-koons-and) _2026-04-15 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ On the line between Postmodernism, Contemporary Art, and Metamodernism ## [Soil Turn—A Field Guide to Artistic Earthly Engagements](https://we-make-money-not-art.com/soil-turn-a-field-guide-to-artistic-earthly-engagements/) _2026-04-14 · Regine · We Make Money Not Art_ The book offers a survey of creative practices that engage with soil in all its dimensions. While I expected land art and pottery, I encountered edible soil, a floating food forest, hidden soil soundscapes, co-production with non-human collaborators, a decomposing SUV, explorations of earthworm’s perception, life within damaged soil ecosystems and many other works that call for a shift from… ## [When the Label Matters: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Art of Our Time](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/when-the-label-matters-modernism-359) _2026-04-08 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a dinner table when someone uses the words “contemporary” and “modern” interchangeably. ## [Picture Perfect. Challenging dominant Western beauty standards](https://we-make-money-not-art.com/picture-perfect-challenging-dominant-western-beauty-standards/) _2026-04-02 · Regine · We Make Money Not Art_ The exhibition delves into the political, ethical and cultural facets of the ideas and practices surrounding beauty ## [Unraveling One of the Biggest Art Fraud Stories: The Morrisseau Case](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/unraveling-one-of-the-biggest-art) _2026-03-31 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ Art detective from archives ## [collapse: data.models.worlds. What role does technology play in the intensifying state of crisis shaping our world?](https://we-make-money-not-art.com/collapse-data-models-worlds-what-role-does-technology-play-in-the-intensifying-state-of-crisis-shaping-our-world/) _2026-03-25 · Regine · We Make Money Not Art_ An interview with Katerina Gkoutziouli and Daphne Dragona about a show that examines the escalation and multiplication of crises shaping the contemporary world ## [Time Travels: Frida Kahlo on Identity as Performance](https://artxchange.substack.com/p/time-travels-frida-kahlo-on-identity) _2026-03-25 · Ornela Ramasauskaite · artXchange Global Newsletter_ Welcome to Ornela’s Time Travels, where I talk to dead artists, writers, collectors, and occasionally chaotic personalities about power, patterns, and why we keep making the same mistakes with better technology.