WHEN IT COMES TO ART, there is no such thing as a glutton. Not in Venice, where one can never get enough, certainly not during the VIP preview of a Biennale. The current edition, the fifty-ninth, has brought such a cornucopia of material from so many parts of the world to so many places around the lagoon that one might think every appetite would be sated. Alas, no! The social deprivations of the pandemic created a hunger for the IRL company of others in numbers that Covid protocols continued to repress. As Pinault Foundation curator Caroline Bourgeois told me, “Monsieur Pinault did not feel that
What's on this week in Florence: HI WOMAN! The News of the Future, Harlem Gospel Choir, Lucia Festival, Christmas markets, Charity Dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel Firenze, Chiesa di Ognissanti
What's on this month in Florence: Benozzo Gozzoli and the Chapel of the Magi and Il Fiorentino: The Grand Diamond of Tuscany, 21st River to River Florence Indian Film Festival, Arezzo Città del Natale, Christmas Concerts, Ferris wheel and Florence on Ice Village, HI WOMAN! The News of the Future, Lucia Festival, Galileo Chini and European Symbolism, Christmas markets, Cinema Odeon, Community Events