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Female Artists Dominate the Venice Biennale for 1st Time

For the first time in the 127-year history of the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair features a majority of female artists, under the curatorial direction of Cecilia Alemani. The result is a Biennale that puts the spotlight on artists who have been long overlooked…

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US artist Leigh recasts colonial imagery at Venice Biennale

American sculptor Simone Leigh is the first Black woman to headline the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale contemporary art fair

The Independent UK

Ukrainian artist makes cultural stand at Venice Biennale

Artist Pavlo Makov’s role representing Ukraine at the Venice Biennale has become an act of defiance against the Russian invaders, whose attacks on his adopted hometown of Kharkiv have grown more intense in recent days

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One of Venice’s most iconic landmarks open to public for first time

The recognisable St Mark’s Square building can now be explored, including its rooftop

The Independent UK

‘We are fighting for our culture’: Ukrainian artists head to Venice Biennale

Pavlo Makov was reluctant to leave Kharkiv but after sleeping in a bomb shelter for a week, he decided he had to represent Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Venice Biennale artist Sonia Boyce on her British Pavilion hailing black British female musicians

The trailblazer is finally getting her due, and not before time

Evening Standard

Venice Biennale kicks off with brightness and joy amid global tensions

Sonia Boyce, representing Britain with Black and female artists, makes ‘a collective attempt against amnesia’

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Venice pushes ahead with €10 entry fee plan as tourists flock back

Authorities hope charge for day-trippers will help control numbers after visitors hit pre-pandemic levels

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‘A glorious cacophony of Black female voices’ – Sonia Boyce’s soul train hits Venice

Reflecting her own childhood yearning for a sense of belonging, the British artist’s multiscreen spectacular – some of it filmed at Abbey Road – is like a music-mad teenager’s bedroom wall

The Guardian - UK

VIDEO: Keep Off The Grass: Early Morning Scare As Huge Alligator Prowls Florida Lawns

The unusual scene was filmed in the city of Venice in Sarasota County located in the US state of Florida on Easter Sunday.

Zenger

Beyond the Biennale: Venice’s ‘secret’ Sant’Elena island

While most of La Serenissima will be heaving with visitors during the art fair, which starts this week, this tiny island at the city’s eastern tip is a world apart

The Guardian - UK

Art lovers to get sneak preview of island ‘rebirth’ at Venice Biennale

After falling into disuse six decades ago, San Giacomo in Paludo will host a performance artist’s show this week

The Guardian - UK

Artist Sonia Boyce: ‘Paintings are not born on walls’

The first black female artist to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale reflects on a career challenging the racial and sexual bias behind what art hangs in galleries – and around in our memories

The Guardian - UK

Venice, in small bites

The upcoming Venice Biennale is the best time to explore the local eateries’ pandemic return to old-style foods such as polpetti and castraure

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The Guardian - UK

The power of Auerbach, the perils of Venice and seaside pleasures from Martin Parr – the week in art

Head to Petworth for Frank Auerbach, Greenwich for Canaletto and Bournemouth for the beach – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

‘Our traditions have been criminalised’ – the Arctic artists bringing protest to the Venice Biennale

They’re threatened by loggers, miners, global heating and culling laws – but the Sámi are fighting back with art. Our writer meets them in the frozen tundra as they prepare for the art world’s biggest global gathering

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago fishing, Midwest Fishing Report: Heidecke/smelt/inland trout openers, coho, browns, steelhead

Openers lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report with smelt netting in Chicago and Heidecke Lake opening on Friday, then inland trout opening on Saturday.

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Canaletto’s Venice Revisited review – pre-tourist masterpieces resist the climate crisis narrative

Linking Canaletto’s paintings of a fading Venice to current climate concerns seems a bit pointless – these stately home treasures already depicted decay

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Daily Mirror

Four-star hotel arms guests with water guns to protect them from seagull attacks

A hotel in Venice, Italy, is so sick of the seagulls stealing people's lunch and carrying out random attacks that they have handed guests water pistols - and they say the strategy is already working

The Guardian - UK

Venice hotel guests issued with water pistols to shoot gulls

Hoteliers find a solution to marauding birds that have become an increasing problem for guests dining al fresco

The Independent UK

Venice tourists given water pistols to fend off aggressive seagulls

‘A gull flew off with an entire steak,’ says hotel manager

Wales Online

Italy slowly easing long-lasting Covid rules ahead of Spring influx of UK visitors

Long-awaited relaxation of travel rules has brought Italy back on the radar and there are a wide range of experiences of offer

Wales Online

How you can get bargain flights to Barcelona, Venice, Madrid and more for as little as £26

May is the best month to bag a deal on flights, according to this travel expert

The Independent UK

Ukrainian artists embraced as Russia sees cultural blacklist

The Venice Biennale art exhibition says it is working to make sure the artist representing Ukraine can come to Italy and show his work

Evening Standard

Pavlo Makov, Ukraine’s Venice Biennale artist, on why he’s standing firm in Kharkiv

This is not a war between Ukrainians and Russians, he says, but between opposing mentalities - and Ukraine has been expecting it

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