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Showing posts with label Bienala de la Venetia 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bienala de la Venetia 2009. Show all posts

June 7, 2009

On your vaporetto to the far pavilions

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