Venice Biennale: women outnumber male artists in main halls for first time

Black women occupy prominent pavilions with some venues showing work from non-binary, disabled and trans artists

There is no shortage of art's big beasts in Venice, as the world's most prestigious international art event, the city's biennale, opens to the public.

Georg Baselitz has made works to hang in the 18th-century stucco frames that once held portraits of the Grimani family in their palazzo. Marc Quinn is showing in the National Archaeological Museum. Anselm Kiefer has covered the walls of a colossal room in the Palazzo Ducale with paintings encrusted with shoes, clothing, metal, and even a ladder.