The Coming of World Art at the Venice Biennale
Barry Schwabsky | The Nation | 4th September 2024
Among the most thoughtful assessments of this year’s Venice Biennale. Good literature can come from almost anywhere, so why don’t we think the same way about art? Our view of contemporary art still adheres to a European-centric story around modernism and abstraction. That narrative excludes Indigenous art that articulates “cultural continuity and an ineradicable connection to place”. Perhaps a perspective that embraces all forms of art will come in to focus, but that has yet to happen.