Stage Review: ‘The Merchant of Venice’ Takes A Gay Path To Tragedy

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VENICE, Italy -- For the first time in the 127-year history of the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair features a majority of female and gender non-conforming artists, under the curatorial direction of Cecilia Alemani.The result is a Biennale that puts the spotlight on artists who have been long overlooked despite prolific careers, while also investigating themes including gender norms, colonialism and climate change.Alemani’s main show, titled “The Milk of Dreams,” alongside 80 national pavilions opens Saturday after a one-year pandemic delay. The art fair runs through Nov.

VENICE, Italy -- For the first time in the 127-year history of the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair features a majority of female and gender non-conforming artists, under the curatorial direction of Cecilia Alemani.The result is a Biennale that puts the spotlight on artists who have been long overlooked despite prolific careers, while also investigating themes including gender norms, colonialism and climate change.Alemani’s main show, titled “The Milk of Dreams,” alongside 80 national pavilions opens Saturday after a one-year pandemic delay. The art fair runs through Nov.

Julianne Moore attends the Venice Biennale art exhibition on Thursday (April 21) in Venice, Italy.

WATCH: Hugh Jackman talks about his marriageThere has been long-standing speculation over Hugh's sexuality, despite the fact that he's in a happy marriage. The comments will inevitably start up any time Hugh posts about his wife, which he recently did to celebrate their anniversary."Today I celebrate 26 years of marriage to my extraordinary wife," he penned in a tribute on their anniversary.

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VENICE, Italy -- Simone Leigh’s sculptures are making a monumental impression at the Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition.The first Black woman to headline the U.S. Pavilion at the international show, the American sculptor installed a monumental 24-foot sculpture outside the Palladian-style brick building, which she topped with a thatched raffia roof on wooden columns.Leigh also sets the tone for the main Biennale exhibition.

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Laughing it off. After more than two decades of marriage, Deborra-Lee Furness opened up about ignoring the rumors about her relationship with Hugh Jackman.

Deborra-Lee Furness is addressing those rumours about her husband Hugh Jackman’s sexuality once again.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice Film Festival is getting in gear to celebrate its 90th anniversary with an international conference to be held in Venice in July.The Biennale, which is the fest’s parent organization, has announced it will hold a confab on July 9 in Venice in the library auditorium of the Biennale foundation’s archives. It will be attended by an as-yet unspecified plethora of international film academics, critics, and also film directors and talents, to commemorate the advent of the world’s oldest film fest.The First Exposition of Cinematic Art — later to be known as the Mostra del Cinema in Italy and the Venice Film Festival globally — opened on Aug.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn the second episode of “The Kardashians,” Hulu’s new reality show featuring the widely-documented Calabasas, Calif. family, there is a moment of reflection.

Guy Lodge Film Critic“Atlantide” is the Italian name for Atlantis, the fictional island utopia imagined by Plato, supposedly cursed by the gods and swallowed by the sea. It’s a pointed legend to evoke in a film about Venice, the sinking city that, real as it is, feels like a place we collectively dreamed into being, that could somehow be taken from us at any moment.