Cecilia Alemani on Her Venice Biennale for an Anxious Era

The Art Angle · Mar 31, 2022 · 44m

This April, after a punishing two years apart during the pandemic, the whole art community will gather together on the magical watery isle of Venice for its periodic ritual assessment of what the world's finest artists have been thinking about and making to grapple with our changing world. They call this climactic event, the Venice Biennale and each time it has presided over by a visionary figure whose role it has been to transmute the work of all these artists into a coherent statement about our time.

This year, that exalted figure is named Cecilia Alemani. Cecilia is a professional art…