Press Coverage

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Best Exhibitions of 2019 - The Guardian
Best Art of 2019 - New York Times
Best Classical Music of 2019 - New York Times

The Best Things to See at the 2019 Venice Biennale – AnOther Magazine

Exhibition of the Year – Apollo Magazine

Take Me to the Beach – Art Territory

Arthur Jafa, Lithuanian Pavilion snag Venice Biennale’s Golden Lions – Artforum

Above The Fray. Erika Balsom On Rugillė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, And Lina Lapelytė’s Sun & Sea (Marina) At The Lithuanian Pavilion, Venice – Artforum

The 10 Absolute Best National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale – Artnet

‘We have more agency than we realize’: Serpentine Curator Lucia Pietroiusti on how the Art World Can Tackle Climate Change – Artnet

It’s Hard to Make Good Art About Climate Change. The Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Is a Powerful Exception – Artnet

Inside the Indoor Beach Opera That’s the Talk of the Venice Biennale – Artsy

On the beach, the world shows – Augsburger Allgemeine (Germany)

Venice Biennale: The best art in the world right now? – BBC

Will Gompertz reviews the 2019 Venice Art Biennale – BBC

Venice Art Biennale 2019: what not to miss – Domus (Italy)

How do art fairs contribute to the climate crisis? – Financial Times

No prize for the German contribution – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)

How a Beach Opera at the 58th Venice Biennale Quietly Contends with Climate Change Catastrophe – Frieze

The tenth most debated artworks of the last twenty years – Harpers Bazaar

Four Spots in the Venice Biennale to Stop You in Your Tracks – Hyperallergic

Librettos at the beach: standouts of this year’s Venice Biennale – Irish Times

Sun & Sea (Marina) – London Review of Books

Best Art of 2019 – New York Times (Sun & Sea (Marina) listed as #1 in “Art for Our Moment” category)

Best Music of 2019 – New York Times

The Don’t-Miss Shows and Pavilions at the Venice Biennale – New York Times

The Venice Biennale Plays It Safe, and Gets Lost in Fog – New York Times

In Venice, an Opera Masks Climate Crisis in a Gentle Tune – New York Times

Exhibition this week: Lithuanian National Pavilion – Q Daily (China)

Lithuania wins, Germany is empty handed – Spiegel Online (Germany)

Best of Venice – Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)

How the Artworld is Going Green – The Art Newspaper

Golden Lion-awarded Lithuanian opera in Venice to be performed twice a week – The Baltic Times

Mawkish monuments and the beach from hell: our verdict on the Venice Biennale – The Guardian

Top 20 Art Exhibitions of 2019 – The Guardian (Sun & Sea (Marina) at #2)

Beyond the beach of doom: What made Lithuania the world champions of art? – The Guardian

If opera survives, it’ll be thanks to artists and curators, not opera houses – The Spectator

The Modern Side of Ancient Venice: A Traveler’s Guide – The Wall Street Journal