As you may have heard, AN editor William Menking is commissioner for this year’s U.S. pavilion at the 11th Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. And as you may have seen if you’re a regular visitor to our site—as everyone should be—AN has launched a new blog in concert with this occasion. For the next week, Bill, along with editors Julie V. Iovine and Anne Guiney, will be posting the latest from Venice: the best pavilions, the worst glasses, the craziest parties, the freshest gossip.

But the fun does not end with the Biennale. In the coming weeks and months, the blog will grow and expand not just to events and parties in New York and California—though there will be plenty of those—but also highlights from the rest of the web, news analyses, photostreams, and more. And don’t worry, archpaper.com will still be chock full of the latest architecture news. Just think of the blog as our work on the boards.