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One Fine Show: The Holy See’s “The Ear is the Eye of the Soul” at Giardino Mistico

In this atmospheric exhibition, visitors in headphones wander a geotagged garden by Santa Lucia station, listening for compositions by FKA Twigs, Terry Riley, Suzanne Ciani and others.

It takes a lot for an artwork these days to make international headlines, but Florentina Holzinger managed to do it with the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale this past May. The experimental theater director’s SEAWORLD VENICE (2026) became such a smash hit that it became impossible to see at the opening of the biennale after the first press preview day, as lines stretched far into the Giardini. A profile in the New York Times followed and another dropped this week in the New Yorker. When the biennale closes, the piece will go on a world tour. It’s like my father always used to say: never underestimate the power of a naked woman on a jet ski.

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