WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
Cecilia Alemani talks with David Velasco about the 59th Venice Biennale
The Nothing Special
On The Andy Warhol Diaries
Oraib Toukan
“Cruel images” and the blind spots of hypervisibility
Under the Cover: Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
David Velasco talks with Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen about Titan’s Poesie
Read Their Lips
The feats and failures of Gran Fury
Dark Tide
Wu Tsang trains her sights on Moby Dick
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PRINT Summer 1966
A Preview of the 1966 Venice Biennale
Henry Geldzahler
This week, the editors present a preview of the Thirty-Third Venice Biennale written in 1966 by Henry Geldzahler, the curator and scholar charged with selecting the American artists who exhibited in the American pavilion that year. The Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale opens to the public this Saturday, April 23.
As Geldzahler declares in this introduction adapted from his catalogue essay for the event, “The representation at a Biennale should serve a double purpose, to honor achievement at home and to present quality abroad.” To this end, he chose four painters—Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly,