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The reality of the Biennale is that it remains one of the most powerful cultural platforms in the world. The question is not whether to use that power, but how — and in whose interest, and with whose voice, and toward what kind of future. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...

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Art has nothing to do with the UN: Internationalism as rhetoric at the The rhetoric of the Venice Biennale as the ‘UN of art’ is the argument most frequently invoked by the cultural institution to assert its independence from politics. By constructing an ecumenical… https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/art-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-un-internationalism-as-rhetoric-at-the-venice-biennale?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=verso_blog