Twenty years ago, "Cardinal Points of Art" was the theme of the 45th Venice Biennale, and the compass was its symbol.

Peter Shelton’s sculpture has made deviously and delightfully clear for more than 30 years that physical space is, inevita- bly, also psychical space. We occupy our small domains and move about acco…

With its competing national pavilions, the Venice Biennale could be considered the art world’s Olympic Games. So it seems fitting that the artist duo representing the United States have designed an ex…

When the second Triennale di Torino, organized by Daniel Birnbaum and called “50 Moons of Saturn,” opened last November, it triggered intense speculation that the Stockholm-born, Frankfurt-based curat…

Until recently, Venice’s Punta della Dogana was a derelict building with a storied past. At the tip of Dorsoduro, next to the Baroque church of Santa Maria della Salute and across the Grand Canal from…

Although Thailand has participated in the Venice Biennale only since 2003, its connection with Italian art and culture dates to 1897, when King Chulalongkorn of Siam (as the country was called until 1…

The first room of Péter Forgács’s installation in the Hungarian pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be lined with videos of faces set in ornate frames typical of a European portrait gallery—though th…

For over 20 years, Liam Gillick has addressed the question of how art has been used to advance a broad range of social and ideological agendas, and to subvert and exploit the material and political st…

Bruce Nauman, the 67-year-old American artist who was selected early last year to be the U.S. artist-representative at the Biennale, has spent his entire career trying to bridge the gap between the re…

“I am an explorer,” says Pascale Marthine Tayou. He is explaining the genesis of a new sculpture to me. “This is yin-yang.” It’s about “the conflict between everyone—the struggle inside.” The work in…