I completely agree with this statement, but when the other five curators of this biennial more or less echo the same sentiment in their essays for the catalogue, it begins to feel as if "the lady doth protest too much".
The White Columns Annual, making its debut this year, does more or less what the Whitney Biennial used to do: it reconsiders a slice of art's immediate past.
I know from many years of studying regulation that one consequence of regulators being given the power to review and prescribe detail is that the regulator the state supervisor will at every biennial or triennial review demand not less but more and stricter regulation.
Alas, this is a principle the directors of the Liverpool Biennial, now in its ninth "edition", have more or less ignored, if it was ever in their minds at all.
In the spirit of the Venice Biennale or the Whitney Biennial, the festival strove for dizzying diversity, presenting some fifty modern works — most of them previously unheard or less than a decade old.
In the spirit of the Venice Biennale or the Whitney Biennial, the festival strove for dizzying diversity, presenting some fifty modern works—most of them previously unheard or less than a decade old.
Her contributions to the '93 biennial were short black-and-white films that had been shot in her bedroom using what was, more or less, a toy camera.
With the Whitney Biennial now less than a month away, the NEW MUSEUM opens its second Triennial, "The Ungovernables," on Wednesday.
Art Karen Rosenberg With the Whitney Biennial now less than a month away, the NEW MUSEUM opens its second Triennial, "The Ungovernables," on Wednesday.
But unlike the early biennials in Lyon, this one did not aim for a historical survey and avoided most well-known European companies to reveal the new or less known.
