Non-Aligned Aesthetics
Dhaka, often regarded by visitors as overcrowded and clogged with traffic, hosts the oldest biennial of contemporary art in Asia: the Asian Art Biennale was founded in 1981, fourteen years before…
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Where the Barbarians Are: A Conversation with Koyo Kouoh
It has been a busy year for Koyo Kouoh, and any respite seems inconceivable for the Senegal-based curator. Kouoh and I spoke as she was making final preparations for EVA International: Ireland’s Bienn…
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The Biennial of the Americas Puts Colorado at the Center of the Map
In the state’s capital, Denver, the third iteration of the Biennial of the Americas (through Aug. 30) is currently examining the divisions, topographic and otherwise, between countries—and between the…
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“Restricting Eyes”: Lee Yong-woo on Gwangju Biennale Censorship
In his first interview since announcing his resignation, Lee talked to A.i.A. via e-mail about the need for free expression in South Korea's young democracy and the future of the exhibition he…
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São Paulo Bienal Reveals Artists and Projects
Titled "How to (...) things that don't exist," the biennial will, the organizers say, take on a research-based approach with open meetings on art and society rather than settling on a specific theme…
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Loosening Up the Edges: Interview with “Made in L.A.” Co-curator Connie Butler
The Hammer Museum's second "Made in L.A." biennial will feature five artist- or curator-helmed organizations, because the biennial's organizers chose to invite certain venues that struck them as…
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Does the Art World Need an Online Biennial?
The first BiennaleOnline, an exclusively Internet-sited contemporary art exhibition, launches Apr. 26 under the direction of Jan Hoet, currently artistic director of Germany's MARTa Herford. Among h…
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Multinatural A Converation With Arto Lindsay
Born in the United States and raised in Brazil during the heyday of its Tropicália movement in the 1960's, Arto Lindsay is best known for collaborative musical performances in which he mixes a dynamic…
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Report From Venice Day 3
The Venice Biennial's central exhibition, its 77 national pavilion exhibitions, and its dozens of ancillary exhibitions (or "collateral projects") are accompanied by an equally copious number of event…
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Good Sport Liam Gillick Takes On the German Pavilion
The art world's Olympics started this weekend in Venice. The journey to the Giardini itself can be a marathon of epic proportions (water hazards and all) but even with some measure of financial restra…
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