........back in venice for the 2013 episode of the Biennale

........first stop, the arsenale

........john bock and the whole sadie coles posse watch his performance

........aaron, mini aaron, and a big charles ray sculpture

........ragnar kjartansson and a friend check out...

........his artwork, a slow-motion nautical concerto

........one of sinichi sawada's creatures

........some sparkling water on my way to the central pavilion

........a tino sehgal perfomance in the middle of the pavilion floor

........peter fischli and david weiss's stupendous "suddenly this overview"

........some of the 387 model houses constructed by a viennese insurance salesman throughout the 20th century

........stuart snaps a photo of the cathy wilkes installation

........eva kotakova's installation features an unusual element -- a live human arm and, around the corner, a live human head (attached to different humans, presumably)

........lizzie in the cafe with a new addition to the art world

........a storm rolls in over the grand canal

........later than night, priya and her pals ride the party boat

........on a small island out in the lagoon, team optimo operate on the jeremy deller party

........the happy dancefloor

........while i make a dash for the second-to-last boat home, priya affirms her commitment to the party

........next morning, a mark manders sculpture in the dutch pavilion

........in the belgian pavlion, a brooding sculpture made by berlinde de bruyckere in dialogue with j. m. coetzee

........intrepid art fans queue for hours for anri sala's video installation at the french (formerly german) pavilion

........a video crew puts jeremy deller on the spot in the british pavilion

........four of the biennale's five curators, francesco, ali, sofia and jessica (the fifth, bisi, is busy around the corner)

........kate and alex prepare for an evening at bar piccolo mondo

........my DJ perch affords a clear view of daniele posing in the crowd

........happy to see the lasers again

........my five-hour DJ shift feels more like five minutes thanks to this dedicated room of boogie nuts

........the obligatory venice photo of laundry drying above a canal

........a dancer improvises to an electronic pulse in the basement of the lithuanian/cypriot pavilion

........globetrotting art duo kasia and payam

........some more sparkling water before i head home