Alexandra Suich Bass
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194 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Alexandra Suich Bass’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Biennale was founded in eighteen ninety-five to celebrate the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of King Umberto and his wife, and to display the strength of Italy, unified only a few decades earlier.
Ever since the artworld Olympics have reflected the wills and woes of their era.
One art historian told me this is the most chaotic and contentious biennale since nineteen sixty-eight, when student protesters targeted the event.
The BNLA's organizing body is ill-equipped to manage the hard issues of free speech, propaganda, and participation that have been plaguing a lot of arts institutions.
A compromise that has pleased no one is that Russia's pavilion was permitted to open for previews, but will remain closed for the main event.
Israel's permanent pavilion is shut, supposedly for construction, with police standing guard outside.
Instead, Israel's been permitted a space in the arsenale, former shipyards, where it is harder to stage protests because of narrower aisles.
There, an artist has set up a pool of water with pipes dripping into it, which quote invites viewers into a contemplative environment.
South Africa's culture minister tried to convince its artist, Gabrielle Goliath, to remove a Palestinian poet from her work.
When she refused, she was told she could no longer participate in the Biennale.
In the end, after trying to cancel Ms.
Goliath, South Africa canceled its pavilion.
Instead, a nearby church offered what Ms.
Goliath calls a radical refuge for her show, Elegy.
It features videos of women singing a single note on loop to honor women who have been killed.
The church's acoustics make it all the more haunting.
Elsewhere, globalization has given way to localization.
This year's biennale is more inward looking.
This year, America's Pavilion changed things up.
It required the artists who were applying to be included to focus on American values, and they were forbidden from mentioning diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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