Venice 2019: 'May You Live in Interesting Times'

Every two years the art world descends on Venice for the Biennale, the Olympics of contemporary art. The 2019 edition, curated by Ralph Rugoff, borrowed its title from a supposed curse: 'May You Live in Interesting Times'.

Across the Giardini and Arsenale, artists from around the globe wrestled with fake news, migration, ecological dread and political turmoil — the unsettling currents of the late 2010s.

With national pavilions from dozens of countries, the Biennale remains a vast, sprawling snapshot of where art — and the world — stands at a given moment.

Image: “Giardini biennale Brazilian pavilion 2011” — Cyril S, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.