60th Venice Biennale: part 1, walk-through of the central pavilion and country pavilions...

[@uptoourpass]

Enjoyed the extensive and varied exhibits in one video. I rambled through it over 3 days. Thank you.

[@donaldsmith7685]

Thanks for the video. My lifelong dream was to see Venice so years ago my wife and I arrived a couple of days ahead of our tour and walked the city on our own, getting lost at every turn, but the night before we were to join the tour I felt ill. The next day I had full blown Covid. We missed the tour and to make matters worse my wife contracted the virus a few days later. We stayed at the La Fenice which is next door to the opera house. They took excellent care of us leaving our meals and fresh towels on a table out by our door so as not to spread the virus to the staff. The day before we left they gave us parting gifts. Such good people. Good ending, this year we made it back and had a tremendous few days. Hope to go back this year.

[@zeroman614]

Epic opening shot. I really appreciate your work, thanks from Chicago.

[@darrendazcox]

I'm in Peoria, see ya in a gallery one day!

[@abstractus6826]

Linda, se te ve súper el nuevo color. Me encantan tus videos... Saludos

[@59jaguar]

Seems like the perfect time to be in Venice to enjoy the peace and quiet free from tourists Happy new year Mary !

[@darrendazcox]

yeah, you would cross the street if you saw my riff-raff looking self but then you would see my awesome art and think someone else did it too haha

[@jameswarhol442]

Nice departure from the typical painting shows which seem to make up the larger part of your channel. Those vintage posters were great. Hard to say what's a standout on first glance though the vinyl records of x-rays at the Austrian Pavillion were really cool. That's one bomb ass pork chop! Merry New Year!

[@darrendazcox]

just say what you actually mean, most of that art was derivative and just overall weak, the neato things are neato but fine art? meh

[@AlessandroCardano]

It's lovely to join you on these video tours. So far, I feel the topic has been left greatly unexplored, I expected to see at least something revolutionary. Waiting for the next part and your thoughts overall. =One Love= -A

[@darrendazcox]

right, overall it was it 'same old same old' right?

[@frcscrts6617]

Thank you Mary Lynn for this nice holiday season gift ! You are talenteous ! 🥰

[@janetatuniquerawfoods2361]

Wow.Amazing footage seeing that it was a little mix of Disneyland meets Macy’s thanksgiving parade. A lot seems images and stories for a children’s book. Being in Mexico since the pandemic… I can relate to the theme. Thank you. Nice work. Happy new year.

[@carlosblanco534]

Happy New Year Mary Lynn and companion (great camera) ). As always. Thanks for sharing your guided visit to Venice. Just a few words from Colombia.

[@aatt3209]

Never have I experienced such a rich collection of 'immersive art' in one single viewing before. Your videographer did successfully capture the immersive feeling even though we the audience is not there but in a 2D space with you. The 'dome' exhibit near the beginning 15:35 inside the Switzerland Pavillion, by Guerreiro do Divino Amor, is top-notch. I got the sense that there was a celebration of diversity and projecting it onto the spherical half dome, which is a common architecture element found in churches and political housings, all encouraging the people standing underneath it to look upward to experiencing some kind of glory of heaven and the light in the sky. Another top-notch surprise I found was at 36:40, by Julien Creuzet inside the French Pavillion. I cannot help but wonder if there were ribbons of leading bullets swimming through the netting that the trapped sea turtle was lucky to avoid. Last but not least was the X-ray films repurposed for recording music, by Austrian artist Anna Jermolaewa, speaking to the resilience and resourcefulness of creative minds, and humanity needing graces in everyday life. Thank you so much for this outstanding recording of the 60th Venice Biennale: part 1, which is completely new to me.

[@darrendazcox]

you need to get out more if you have never seen a better art show or maybe you are young. What I saw looked pretty mundane considering the millions and millions of euros it must have taken to put that show together.

[@alanclayton9277]

thanks for all of the quality content in 2024 Mary, all the best for 2025. so now i have to charge my phone to watch this one: nearly 1 hr runtime! wow va bene! (looked that up).

[@MaryLynn_Buchanan]

It’s a long one for sure! Lots to see

[@ursulafrydrich5857]

Ich genieße dein wunderbares Video am heutigen Silvester, herzlichen Dank.

[@torufujimoto3992]

㊗️あけましておめでとうございます㊗️ “Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing your incredible journeys through the world’s most beautiful museums and galleries. Your videos are not only visually stunning but also filled with warmth and inspiration, thanks to your voice, presence, and the exceptional work of your team. I’m always amazed by the thoughtfulness and passion you bring to each video. Wishing you and your team a wonderful year ahead filled with new adventures and creativity. I look forward to seeing more of your amazing content!”

[@darrendazcox]

warmth? :)

[@lolachlih3136]

I enjoy watching your videos there so relaxing thank you for the walkthrough showing us such beautiful art❤ Happy New Years 🎉❤

[@grimperpl]

Great video. I can revisit last year's Biennale! Thank you. BTW Looks like you missed Polish pavillion

[@jamesbarry1673]

Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@MaryLynn_Buchanan]

Happy New Year!

[@jamesslate6664]

So proud to have Jeffrey Gibson representing the United States as the first queer Native American artist at the Biennale. Gibson has enjoyed a string of successes after his recent retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum.

[@darrendazcox]

represented as if the public cares about who someone prefers to have sex with after decade upon decade of culture telling us it's ok to be gay, so what, we already got the message and I'm not a bigot but that's the best artist to represent the USA? IS this show just a DEI thing? Even if it was just a celebration of DEI the art is still clumsy.

[@cezartb]

Great! Thanks!

[@joellelayani1118]

THANK A LOT VENISE IS SO MUCH

[@charlescox602]

Wonderful

[@rlund651]

Enjoyed the post on this stellar event. I seen several Venice Biennale videos on KZbin . So many of the exhibitions have wonderful sound. I think It might have been better if you had Incorporated some of the sound in your post. Thank you.

[@pintandoconmoctezuma]

Only a few were interesting, I am disappointed ☹️. By the way, happy new year 🎉🥳.

[@darrendazcox]

thank you for being honest

[@darrendazcox]

The first video I watched in 2025! This comment is about the overall rich people art scene and this video in particular as observed by an outsider to that scene, no offense to the lovely and talented presenter intended. As an immigrant artist, forced to live on two different continents I feel that I could have represented the USA pavilion so this was exciting to watch as maybe I will get my chance one day.. My thoughts on the video are that Mary herself IS the focus, the wacky and colorful 'art' just serves to show off her demure and collected silhouette and those forced polite smiles are delightful in the ominous isolation of flesh and blood people with hormones and feelings all pretending to be observers rather than natural people. Poor people would be having waaaay more fun! Hell, I pulled off a show in my backwater berg that had people of all ages coloring in a mural on a primed wall=sized canvas with crayons, everyone loved it and chatted together and I can't afford to travel, just saying, even if the art was excellent it still looked tiring to walk primly through as if you were in an office rather than the collective ephemeral fantasies of our most imaginative people. Most of that art just looked blatantly derivative of what I have seen iterated for decades, Some are almost direct rip-offs I mean at least homages to greater artists and the whole 'save the environment' idea seems stale. poor people don't care about the future of rich people's children and no amount of guilt tripping is going to change anything as the people that could make a difference only pander and pat themselves on the back with 'awareness' not personal choices, I mean did you swim to Venice or take luxury transportation there, it just seems like a dark psychological fetish to tell others not to do what you are doing as I don't eat ocean fish, do you? Those rainbow murals looked like grade school level, terrible, I've seen a dozen coffee shops with almost the same murals and each one better quality, you probably have too. Little screens with anything on them is lazy and the whole unhealthy brand name beverage as a metaphor for the west just ended up feeling like an advert - did you say dystopian? What's more dystopian than removing the type of love that actually brings children into the world with male and female parents - there was absolutely NONE of that at all - it's as if the idea of a mom, dad and child is taboo - that is dystopian for real. Even if you can't afford a family you can still be a normal person who might want one and can represent that type of joy visually, you know like Vincent Van Gogh painted, have you heard of him? The LP's made from x-rays was neato but is that art? I guess anything neato is now art or maybe that country has no artists that can paint or sculpt at all? The things that were actually 'good' seemed to have people noticing - the paint drip with color gradient wall was actually the best minimalism on a macro-scale that I have seen in a long time - seems like others noticed too - good art can be detected without any manifesto to explain it! It's Venice, home of one of the best of the best painters, the mighty Titian but this show didn't have one tasteful nude, I mean you showed a couple of sloppily painted nude men but women - verboten! Halt, Ihre Papiere bitte!! Do you think that a woman's natural beauty is only allowed to be 'glorified' or at least realistically represented in pornography? Where else can children get a tasteful glimpse into what growing up entails if not in the arts? What options do adolescents have to see the public express their sexuality anymore with that part of reality being scrubbed from the arts? At an all ages drag show? or one of those pride parades where naked men walk around in bondage gear in front of children as if their fetish must be shared to prevent discrimination? You, representative defacto of the rich people art world, are now discriminating against families and straight men in general!!! I am a poor nobody with no clout so my opinion doesn't matter but overall it seems like the arts are a tool for pushing social agendas, using rich people to spank their psyches for the naughtiness of colonization that none of us had anything to do with - the arts now seem analogous to that idea of powerful men being willingly abused by dominatrixes for their release from the bondage of responsibility via temporary physical pain. Why did you add the pork chop scene? You are aloof and impersonal the whole video, not in a mean way just like how you might be in real life to prevent unwanted advances but suddenly here's an intimate part of your life, why?

[@MariaCJ-w8s]

I REALLY MISS THE BEAUTY OF ART !! 😏

[@darrendazcox]

yeah me too, the legacy of Venice is one of beauty in the arts and they destroyed it by taking heterosexual love and the straight male viewpoint out of the arts - sad

[@paullynn473]

I would explore the city of Venice first before the exhibitions❤. Best wishes for 2025.

[@frcscrts6617]

I would like to ses the clogs you wear in the last video, they look so confortable to scroll in muséums and even outdoors in the rain !

[@PetervanderPalm]

happy new year

[@MaryLynn_Buchanan]

Happy New Year!

[@darrendazcox]

@@MaryLynn_Buchanan easy one to answer while taking a tinkle! no thought required!

[@ElfGoblin]

Well, the art was the usual stuff ... but what disappointed me the most was Mary Lynn's supposedly massive pork chop. I was expecting a chop the size of that steak Miranda eats in The Devil Wears Prada but it turned out to be an above average sized schnitzel !

[@saidsharifart]

only Serbian and Austrian pavilions made sense. these were very well made and the ideas behind artworks were brilliant clear. others are either nonsense or very raw and abstract ideas. worst is germany's pavilion.

[@darrendazcox]

I kind of liked the killer AI drone thing but yeah, most everything was drab at best

[@robertspies4695]

Keeping that fruit for the duration in the Japanese Pavilion with IV drips.

[@darrendazcox]

a science experiment , reminded me of that artist who starved a dog to death in a gallery 'as art' - just not cool

[@eo-fi3fh]

[@tomc7376]

That's sh*tload of expensive social studies dioramas!

[@darrendazcox]

haha! well said!

[@andriisukhariev]

oh yeah? my comment got censored . Freedom of speach is here too... nice

[@j.s3300]

Speech

[@carlbrunt1170]

Oh yeah? What did you say about the sterile and inane exhibits? 🤐

[@darrendazcox]

Mine will get censored too, I'll c/p it here The first video I watched in 2025! This comment is about the overall rich people art scene and this video in particular as observed by an outsider to that scene, no offense to the lovely and talented presenter intended. As an immigrant artist, forced to live on two different continents I feel that I could have represented the USA pavilion so this was exciting to watch as maybe I will get my chance one day.. My thoughts on the video are that Mary herself IS the focus, the wacky and colorful 'art' just serves to show off her demure and collected silhouette and those forced polite smiles are delightful in the ominous isolation of flesh and blood people with hormones and feelings all pretending to be observers rather than natural people. Poor people would be having waaaay more fun! Hell, I pulled off a show in my backwater berg that had people of all ages coloring in a mural on a primed wall=sized canvas with crayons, everyone loved it and chatted together and I can't afford to travel, just saying, even if the art was excellent it still looked tiring to walk primly through as if you were in an office rather than the collective ephemeral fantasies of our most imaginative people. Most of that art just looked blatantly derivative of what I have seen iterated for decades, Some are almost direct rip-offs I mean at least homages to greater artists and the whole 'save the environment' idea seems stale. poor people don't care about the future of rich people's children and no amount of guilt tripping is going to change anything as the people that could make a difference only pander and pat themselves on the back with 'awareness' not personal choices, I mean did you swim to Venice or take luxury transportation there, it just seems like a dark psychological fetish to tell others not to do what you are doing as I don't eat ocean fish, do you? Those rainbow murals looked like grade school level, terrible, I've seen a dozen coffee shops with almost the same murals and each one better quality, you probably have too. Little screens with anything on them is lazy and the whole unhealthy brand name beverage as a metaphor for the west just ended up feeling like an advert - did you say dystopian? What's more dystopian than removing the type of love that actually brings children into the world with male and female parents - there was absolutely NONE of that at all - it's as if the idea of a mom, dad and child is taboo - that is dystopian for real. Even if you can't afford a family you can still be a normal person who might want one and can represent that type of joy visually, you know like Vincent Van Gogh painted, have you heard of him? The LP's made from x-rays was neato but is that art? I guess anything neato is now art or maybe that country has no artists that can paint or sculpt at all? The things that were actually 'good' seemed to have people noticing - the paint drip with color gradient wall was actually the best minimalism on a macro-scale that I have seen in a long time - seems like others noticed too - good art can be detected without any manifesto to explain it! It's Venice, home of one of the best of the best painters, the mighty Titian but this show didn't have one tasteful nude, I mean you showed a couple of sloppily painted nude men but women - verboten! Halt, Ihre Papiere bitte!! Do you think that a woman's natural beauty is only allowed to be 'glorified' or at least realistically represented in pornography? Where else can children get a tasteful glimpse into what growing up entails if not in the arts? What options do adolescents have to see the public express their sexuality anymore with that part of reality being scrubbed from the arts? At an all ages drag show? or one of those pride parades where naked men walk around in bondage gear in front of children as if their fetish must be shared to prevent discrimination? You, representative defacto of the rich people art world, are now discriminating against families and straight men in general!!! I am a poor nobody with no clout so my opinion doesn't matter but overall it seems like the arts are a tool for pushing social agendas, using rich people to spank their psyches for the naughtiness of colonization that none of us had anything to do with - the arts now seem analogous to that idea of powerful men being willingly abused by dominatrixes for their release from the bondage of responsibility via temporary physical pain. Why did you add the pork chop scene? You are aloof and impersonal the whole video, not in a mean way just like how you might be in real life to prevent unwanted advances but suddenly here's an intimate part of your life, why?

[@az6498]

I can see why Dean Kissick dug into the Biennial-- it's like the Olympics or smthg, with artists as (inter)national mascots. Horrible.

[@solarplexus4003]

To be honest - much of it disgusts me.

[@MariaCJ-w8s]

Absolutely true….

[@josephgabriel2336]

You’re hilarious! Do you write your own material for your own channel?

[@kerryfletcher8114]

Is this because you realise how rich we must become to be artists?

[@darrendazcox]

@@kerryfletcher8114 haha so true, rich and not heterosexual so basically almost all the world couldn't be a famous artist even if they tried

[@darrendazcox]

@@MariaCJ-w8s yeah, I agree and it's funny how having an opinion on something you spent your time to view and comment on is auto-triggering some people

[@josephgabriel2336]

😂solarplexus4003 below is hilarious! So dramatic.😂 If some art doesn’t appeal to you, move on. Plenty to see in the world.🎉

[@darrendazcox]

why not change solarplexus4003's mind by explaining some of it - it took me to actually properly see a Rothko color field painting to not think it was joke - the second I was enveloped with the color from the sunlight reflecting back to me the pigment from the white primer I got it - it's not visual it's sensual, it changed my mind but no one EVER wrote that in an art book, just showed a monochrome square and told me it was good - my reaction was, no it isn't UNTIL I saw it - some art needs gentle explanation and being in-situ with proper lighting to get it. Try convincing your nemesis with your experience and knowledge rather than making it is us vs them situation is my suggestion to avoid looking like you are triggered

[@harvekirds]

contemporary politics

Yackety yak

[@darrendazcox]

what does that mean?