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…
During last year’s Manifesta 11 in Zurich, visitors were given an odorous answer to a question they never knew they had: How much solid waste does that stately riverside Swiss city’s entire…