News The news of Iran’s exit from this year’s edition comes two months after the US and Israel first launched strikes across the country. Iran's pavilion exhibition for the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, Of being and singing, with works by Reza Lavassani, Samira Alikhanzadeh, and Ali Meer Azimi (photo by Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images) With a single day remaining before the 61st Venice Biennale opens for previews this week, the Biennale Foundation announced today that Iran will not be participating in the national pavilion exhibition. The news comes two months after the United States and Israel first launched strikes across Iran, and coincides with resumed attacks along the Strait of Hormuz as tensions throughout the temporary ceasefire bubbled over in the last 24 hours.…