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A detail from Marcel Dzama's coloring book, titled Coloring the Moon Pink, dated 2020.

Coloring the Moon Pink

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Marcel Dzama: Coloring the Moon Pink

Diana Thater and Rachel Rose

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

 on two cities, Venice and Rome—each a work of art, both a monument to the past—and on how love and loss shape places and spaces.

“There's a feeling, for me, of at-homeness in Rome,’’ Zarin says, “and the idea of a part of my life occurring there that I really am at a loss to explain. I am enamored. You never can really tell why you fall in love with a person, can you? You can say lots of things, but it's all completely meaningless. For me, it's the same feeling about Rome.”

View of the Grand Canal looking toward the Punta della Dogana from Campo Sant’Ivo

, second third of the eighteenth century (detail). Pinacoteca di Brera

The best way to approach Venice from the airport is to take the water taxi. It is also the most expensive. Like most things in Venice, there are convolutions before the payoff. There is no transport between the airport proper and the boat dock where the water taxis come in. You pull or carry your luggage down a long pathway, a distance of perhaps a quarter of a mile, following signs put up to encourage the traveler. This is the last direct route in Venice, the last walk on which not to get lost.

Read excerpts from “Serene’’ and “Roma’’, chapters in the forthcoming book 

You can also listen to the author reading the excerpts at the bottom of this page.



In this conversation, Zarin speaks about Venice and Rome in a celebration of Italy as the country begins to loosen the longest coronavirus-related lockdown in Europe. The episode features evocative readings from 

, which captures the meditative yet constantly surprising nature of travel from a deeply personal point of view.

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, late 1720s. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Canaletto, 

View of the Arch of Constantine with the Colosseum

Cynthia Zarin

To Venice and Rome

A detail from a painting by Alice Neel, titled Takahara Shindu, dated 1969.

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Harold Ancart: Pools

 is a new online series focusing on recent works by gallery artists. These new works by Carol Bove continue her ongoing series of “collage sculptures,” composed of crushed and manipulated steel tubing, scrap metal and, often, a smooth steel disk. The works push the limits of steel’s physicality—and test our perceptions of material. Painted in vibrant colors, these sculptures are meditative considerations of art history and visual culture at large.

Image: In-progress color studies from Carol Bove’s studio, 2020

Studio: Carol Bove

Watch the following video to learn about the 

 Harold Ancart began making in the summer of 2017.

With physical galleries and museums temporarily closed during these uncertain times, the art community has increasingly turned to digital spaces to share the work of artists, and to engage passionate audiences all over the world.

We are proud to host 

, a new online initiative that brings together twelve New York–based galleries—our friends, neighbors, and peers—to present available works from a single artist on their rosters.

Browse available works from twelve galleries

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David Zwirner is an art gallery with locations in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Hong Kong. We present physical and online exhibitions, podcasts, books, and more.