The phrase itself, employed across the political spectrum from as far left as Brecht and as far right as Hillary Clinton, has seemed to reference an ancient Chinese curse, though there is a bit of orientalism in that explanation since there is no trace of the phrase in Chinese. Production still from “There Is No Such Thing as Outside” (2019). This is the 58th version of the festival, which runs until November 24. An exception was the British Pavilion which made its colonial subjects (audience) stand in line for a half an hour in the Venetian heat and humidity to have their own private viewing, in the process seeming to affirm the idea of empire. May You Live in Interesting Times is the title and organizing principle of this year’s Venice Biennale, the every-other-year festival of contemporary art, this year curated by Ralph Rogoff, head of the Hayward Gallery in London and now an officer in something called the Order of the British Empire, though many of the best pieces in the show were blows against the idea of a (white, masculinist, colonial) empire.

This edition, Quinn has created a successor sculpture that he wants to be a call to action: Six pairs of arching hands creating a bridge over a Venetian waterway, symbolic of the need to overcome divisions. Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn created a splash on the sidelines of the Venice Biennale contemporary art fair two years ago with a sculpture of gigantic child’s hands reaching out of the Grand Canal, calling attention to climate change that threatens, among other things, to sink the lagoon city. Lorenzo Quinn's six pairs of arching hands creating a bridge over a Venetian waterway.

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