Venice Biennale Replaces Longtime Chairman Paolo Baratta

A recent shakeup at one of the world’s largest and most well-known art fairs is still making waves into this week, with the news that the Venice Biennale‘s chairman for the last four years (and for two years back at the end of the 1990s), Paolo Baratta, has been let go. The Art Newspaper writes that Baratta has been largely responsible for turning the exhibition around, making it not only more successful but more approachable as well, by providing and thinking through the necessary logistics to pull off such a large event that regularly pulls in more than 300,000 visitors.