Marianne Malone
Marianne Malone is the author of the middle grade series, The Sixty-Eight Rooms, published by Random House.
The Venice Biennale often takes time to digest and find a thread—if there is one—that unites the art that has been chosen to sum up the world at this moment. This installment is no different.
There is no place quite like Venice for imagining stories. The crazy impossibility of the city itself engenders thoughts of the characters who built it and the lives they might have lived. Equal parts strength and vulnerability, the stone, and bricks and wood pylons surviving nearly unchanged, while centuries of footsteps have wandered along its narrow streets.
