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Apr 2024
27m 31s

Venice Biennale 2024

MONOCLE
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We bring you our dispatch from the 60th edition of the world’s most prestigious art event, which takes the temperature of contemporary art right now. In the first of two programmes, we meet the artists behind the Ethiopian, South Korean and Romanian pavilions. 

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