Artists John Baldessari and Yoko Ono will be awarded Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement at this year’s Venice Biennale, reports the Los Angeles Times’s Suzanne Muchnic. Cited as “two of the most important artists of our time,” they will be honored on June 6 at the opening of the fifty-third edition of the international contemporary art exhibition in Italy. In a statement announcing the news, Daniel Birnbaum, director of the Biennale, said that the artists’ “groundbreaking activities have opened new poetic, conceptual, and social possibilities for artists around the globe working in all media” and that they “have shaped our understanding of art and its relationship to the world in which we live. Their work has revolutionized the language of art and will remain a source of inspiration for generations to come.”
