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The former artistic director of The Players is a commanding presence in Sarasota theater.

I was riding up the elevator in the Whitney Museum’s Marcel Breuer building in the spring of 1977, “minding my own business” as it were, and unaware of a forthcoming shock, when the large elevator doors opened. I was stunned and thrown backwards by a John Cage-type experience of nothing. At first, I timidly stood still, but then with the danger of a closing elevator door, I stepped out onto the fourth floor of the museum where I encountered Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977) by Robert Irwin.

Is the meaningful substance of an artwork its aesthetic qualities or the circumstances surrounding its creation? Both aspects are always valid and at play, especially in painting, where one is dealing with a picture and an art object at once.

From John Akomfrah’s hypnotic British Pavilion to an exhibition by Christoph Büchel at the Fondazione Prada, here are four shows not to miss at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale

Taking the pulse on the National Gallery’s Collection share.