– The Venice Biennale kicked off this week, with Sarah Sze’s subtle American pavilion, New Zealander Bill Cubert’s under-valued light art, and Mathias Poledna’s heartwarming animated film for the Austrian showing. Art+Auction previewed Jesper Just's film for the biennale and Coline Milliard reviewed Massimiliano Gioni’s “The Encyclopedic Palace,” calling it “the most successful Venice Biennale exhibition in recent years.”
– Benjamin Sutton went to the Brooklyn Museum to take an in-depth look at Valerie Hegarty’s wild interventions in the museum’s period rooms.
– Julia Halperin focused in on Warhol Foundation head and former politician Joel Wachs.
– Ben Davis skewered the art market in this timely analysis of what the Detroit Institute of Art’s plights says about the fate of art.
– Cooper Union’s annual art show opened as students still stage a round-the-clock protest upstairs in president Jamshed Bharucha’s office.
– Rapidly growing Dallas-based auction house, Heritage Auctions, gained 5,000 square feet of space on New York’s Park Avenue.
– Janelle Zara interviewed the co-founders of Shanghai-based architecture firm Neri & Hu Design Research Office on the ways that a Chinese identity influences their design practice.
– Our weekly “Planet Art” roundup featured great shows from Austria to Mexico that are on view this month.
– Rob Sharp reported from London that the 10th year of Frieze will debut a leaner fair, more geared at professionals.
– BLOUIN ARTINFO held our first-ever art fair essay contest, and winner Leo Curbelo’s entry on Frieze New Yorkis just what we were hoping for.
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