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A Slovenian Biennial that Breaks the Mold
Heroic risk is evident in the Slovenian organization of the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts, which goes so far as to adopt the chance-based exquisite cadaver game as a model.
Biennials
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World's Smallest Biennale Drops Anchor on Caribbean Islet
There may not be another edition of the new Biennale de La Biche, as the wooden shack that hosts it may well disappear between now and 2019 due to rising sea levels.
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Tracing the Contours of Power at the Marrakech Biennale
MARRAKESH — In the vaults adjacent to the city's Koutoubia Mosque, a video by the Copenhagen-based artists' group Superflex tells the story of migrants and refugees eager to reach Europe.
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Beaded Paintings, Epic Narratives, and Beastlands at a Midwestern Biennial
MINNEAPOLIS — Curator Cheryl Wilgren Clyne has brought together a satisfying, diverse array of Midwestern artists, with a mix of performative and interactive pieces as well as photography, painting, print, and even a living sculpture.
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In Kochi, India, a Biennial Makes Room for Reimagining the Region
NEW DELHI — The Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) launched in 2012 and has distinguished itself by the scale of its ambition.
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A Biennial Asks: Where Is Brooklyn?
“This exhibition series intends to demonstrate the rich wealth of talent to be found throughout Brooklyn.” This is the mission statement of the BRIC Biennial, which recently launched the first edition of the series in its new home in Fort Greene.
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Making Sense of a Biennial of "Makers"
NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial is the closest thing you’ll find to a crowd-sourced exhibition on view in New York right now — perhaps anywhere.
News
Brooklyn Gets a Neighborhood-Centric Biennial
Yesterday brought the news that Brooklyn is getting an art biennial.
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A First Look at the New SITE Santa Fe Biennial
SANTA FE — At this point it's hard to keep track of which type of art event there are more of: art fairs or biennials. There are art fairs that look like biennials, biennials that look like art fairs, triennials, pop-ups, and everything in between. But the trope of the biennial has long been a fixtu
Opinion
Notes from New Orleans: Prospect.3 Artists Announced
NEW ORLEANS — Judging from this week’s press events announcing the artistic and venue lineup for Prospect.3, it looks like things are indeed going to be shaken up considerably in New Orleans this fall.
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The Many Contradictions of a "Ghetto Biennale"
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In 2011, for the second Ghetto Biennale, artist Jason Metcalf hired a Haitian translator to translate the chapter on creolization from Nicholas Bourriaud's The Radicant into Creole and distributed it throughout Port-au-Prince, the location of the biennale. When I read about t
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A Deep Dive into Digital Art
Some people spend Christmas Eve going to mass or sitting around a tree; others spend it eating Chinese food and going to see a movie. If you don't have any family or friend traditions to adhere to, or if you do but want an escape, one possibility I'd recommend is to spend this late afternoon/evening