From indoor gardens to smoking, drinking and painting badly (and that's just the artists), the world's grandest art exhibition is upon us. Amid the heat and hyperbole, Bruce Nauman's hard-headed art provides the benchmark.
Writing for The Guardian, Laura Cumming tell it how it is.
Photo shows 'The dead collector Mr B', part of the joint Nordic offering from artist-curators Elmgreen and Dragset at the Venice Biennale. Photograph: Tony Gentile/Reuters
The splootin' squirrels of SoCal are keepin' cool
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[image: Splooting squirrel]
Squirrels were melting into the ground during the last Southern California
heatwave.
Scientists explain "splooting" as rodents...
1 hour ago