The jury of the Venice Biennale resigned a few days before the prestigious art exhibition’s opening, following controversy over the participation of Russia and Israel. ARISTIDIS VAFEIADAKIS/ZUMA/SIPA
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The American-Lebanese artist Nabil Nahas, 76, spent eight months in his childhood village of Aanjar, in the heart of the Mount Lebanon mountains. As tensions between Israel and Hezbollah escalated, he worked in a converted silk farm to create the paintings that make up “Don’t Get Me Wrong,” a 45-meter-long mural for the Lebanon Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. “I absorb a collective unconscious and, without realizing it, draw from it,” he told Le Nouvel Obs in mid-April, just days before heading to the City of Canals.
The porous boundary between art and current events lies at the heart of an explosive 61st edition. The oldest international contemporary art exhibition, which opens to professionals on May 6 and to the public on May 9, is not immune to the world’s ripples. Strikes on Ukraine, Gaza, Beirut, and beyond…
