Venice Biennale Names Cecilia Alemani as Artistic Director for 2021

The world’s biggest art festival—with an international purview and more than a century of history behind it—has named the person who will helm its 2021 edition. Cecilia Alemani, currently the director and chief curator of the High Line’s art program in New York, has been named artistic director of the 2021 Venice Biennale, which opens in Italy in May of next year. Her appointment makes her one of four women ever to have curated an edition of the biennial, and she is the f