Why did the Venice Biennale go soft on Russia?
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When in 2022, Russia seized the mantle of global pariah by invading Ukraine, its absence from that year’s Venice Biennale – the international culture expo hosted by the city every two years – seemed an inevitable acknowledgement of world events.
On that occasion, the bleak green facade of the Russian pavilion had the lost, neglected look of a house long uninhabited. Cordoned off by an invisible but palpable boundary of shame, the weeds made the most of it, and the world’s biggest art event pass
On that occasion, the bleak green facade of the Russian pavilion had the lost, neglected look of a house long uninhabited. Cordoned off by an invisible but palpable boundary of shame, the weeds made the most of it, and the world’s biggest art event pass
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