Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev has ordered the veiling of two Aidan Salakhova sculptures representing their country at the Venice Biennale. One’s fairly ordinary, but her other work is a miniature Holy Mecca thrust inside a giant, vaginal marble frame. Read more »
New York Magazine tagged along while Swoon’s Swimming Cities of Serenissima scavenged preparations for their raft journey into Venice for the Bienale. “‘There’s no trust-fund babies here,’ snorts one of the crew, who then covertly disses Dash Snow, the art world’s enfant terrible of just a few years ago. ‘No grandmother on the Upper East Side.’” |New York|
Swoon’s Swimming Cities of Serenissima, her latest fleet of handbuilt raft sculptures, launched into the Adriatic Sea in Slovenia and floated into Venice in time for the Biennale. Their safe arrival will be celebrated here in New York with a benefit party at Honey Space, which hosted a subterranean installation by the seafaring street artist last year. A silent auction of artwork by Swoon, Honey Space founder Thomas Beale, and other New York artists will be followed by a party with some Vermont-based bands and booze. Click the images above for a view of the artistically styled watercraft.
Editor-in-Chief:
