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A wide shot shows the white, pillared facade of the Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, with the words "la Biennale" displayed above the entrance as people walk through the sunny courtyard.

Private Views: Lost in Translation

In her second dispatch, Gabriella Angeleti asks whether curatorial spectacle has been replaced by hollow, grandiose language

Gabriella Angeleti
Image of pink carpeted and wallpapered 'New Humans' exhibition at the New Museum, showing a series of anthropomorphic sculptures.

The New Museum: Back to the Future

The New York institution's director talks about the promise of tomorrow, getting past the ‘stupor’ of the masterpiece and rethinking the art museum


Jeni Fulton
A dense row of approximately forty sculptural crutches, cast in fleshy pinks, muddy browns, and charred blacks with visceral, lumpy textures, hangs against a plain white gallery wall in a rhythmic, unsettling installation.

Do Only Women Get to Suffer in Public?

Across contemporary art, depictions of cancer are strikingly gendered: female and queer artists are praised for public candour, while male illness is more often muted or mythologised. Why, in an age of self-disclosure, does male suffering still struggle to be seen?

Ella Lewis-Williams
Palermo's Palazzo Forcella De Sata, the future home of Hauser and Wirth, a grand palazzo foregrounded by trees.

Can Palermo's Art Market Fulfil its Potential?

Palermo experienced a surge in tourism in the 2010s on the back of the Sicilian capital’s rehabilitation as a cultural capital. Now, as the city is once again reshaped by outside forces, can its nascent art market establish a state of self-dependence?

Izabela Anna Rzeczkowska-Moren

Hong Kong, Beyond the Fair

Angelle Siyang-Li outlines a route through Hong Kong away from Art Basel, from the best local restaurants to the galleries, neighbourhoods and escapes that shape the city's cultural life

Tom Seymour