BENETTON CANCELS EXHIBITION FOR VENICE BIENNALE

Benetton has canceled its plans to take artworks by eight African-American artists to the Venice Biennale. Artnet reports that the company was collaborating with the American Folk Art Museum for the exhibition, which was scrapped because the planned site, the unoccupied and historic Fondaco dei Tedeschi adjacent to the Rialto Bridge, could not be renovated in time.

Curators Martha Henry and Carlo McCormick had selected four graffiti artists (Blade, DAZE, QUIK, and Sharp) and four outsider Artists (Lonnie Holley, Mr. Imagination, Tin Man, and Kevin Sampson) for the exhibition.