VENICE -- One way for art to be good is for it to talk about essential things. The art of Gerard Byrne, who was asked to fill the Irish Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale, does that. It also talks about the way we talk about them. That may make his work good art, squared. -
An Irish Artist's Time-Twisting Storytelling
VENICE -- One way for art to be good is for it to talk about essential things. The art of Gerard Byrne, who was asked to fill the Irish Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale, does that. It also talks about the way we talk about them. That may make his work good art, squared.-
By Blake Gopnik