"When I was a kid, I dreamt of going to Venice because it seemed crazy to have a city 'floating' on the sea," the photographer Innuteq Storch recently told Art Review. "The idea of roads made of water instead of regular streets," he said, "was so cool to me." His dream has come true: Storch was chosen to represent Denmark this year at the 60th Venice Biennale--becoming the first Kaalaleq (Arctic Inuit) artist to have a solo exhibition at the art event. His work, which combines archival and found photography with his own imagery to illuminate his nation's identity through a Greenlandic gaze, is making news around the world.

Up On The Roof: Petrit Halilaj | Abetare (Spider) at The Met  The Kosovo-born artist draws intricate, goofy, figures in space against the Manhattan skyline—birds, flowers, Batman—in metal for the latest Rooftop Commission, which opened yesterday. But look a little closer and fearsome shapes emerge: a hammer and sickle, an ominous spider, indecipherable characters with no linguistic heritage. Halilaj brings to his work images from childhood memories of his count...