Today art festivals—biennials, triennials, and so forth—are so pervasive, it feels as if a major one is happening each week. But even in the late 1990s, when biennial fever had yet to peak, there…
Australia’s Biennale of Sydney announced today that Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker will be its new CEO and director. She will oversee the opening of the 2018 edition of the biennial, which will be <a href="/art-news/news/mami-kataoka-will-direct-the-2018-biennale-of-sydney-6618/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"…
Today the Biennale of Sydney revealed that it has tapped Mami Kataoka, the chief curator of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, to be artistic director of its 21st edition, which will take…
Sound the alarm! The Biennale of Sydney has released the initial artist list for its 20th edition, which runs March 18 through June 5, 2016. It is titled “The future is already here — it’s…
With Ai Weiwei having recently received his passport after Chinese authorities held it for four years, we turn back to the October 2006 issue of ARTnews, in which Barbara Pollack spoke to the…
Peeking out from the darkness at Carriageworks is a five-channel video installation: Running Men (2008-14), by the Australian artist Daniel McKewen, which depicts familiar Hollywood figures such as…
After years when its gaze has been turned to Asia, the Biennale of Sydney has taken a decidedly northern turn for its 19th edition (through June 9), organized by the Melbourne-based curator Juliana…