For most of its audience, this year's Whitney Biennial will exist as a community of parallel exhibitions.
He added a visual aspect to this predominately musical event by organizing parallel exhibitions of major painters.
How can I reboot these obsessions in the light of recent debates?" With two parallel exhibitions around the UK and plans under way for a feature film on the Black Panthers, Akomfrah's public profile looks set to broaden.
This year, Neo Rauch, the "father" of this group of neo-realistic painters and considered one of Germany's greatest living artists, is being feted with parallel exhibitions: one at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and a retrospective at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts, both through Aug. 15.
As if the Venice Biennale didn't offer enough art already between the Arsenale, the Giardini and the various national pavilions found on the crumbling side streets, there are also numerous palazzos that have been repurposed for parallel exhibitions mounted by some of the world's pre-eminent private collections.
Art critic Estelle Lovatt told BBC Breakfast why the parallel exhibitions would have appealed to the artists.
Levi, interviewed at his parallel Dali exhibition in Paris this week, insisted his sculptures were indeed art.
Unfolding through both the Helmhaus and Löwenbräukunst, a parallel "Historical Exhibition", curated by Francesca Gavin, is a trove of photographs, paintings, sculpture and conceptual works organised by theme, paralleling Jankowski's "collaborative ventures".
In November, the ensemble will present a program highlighting the innovators and followers of British contemporary music (such as Birtwistle, Turnage and Ades) to parallel the exhibition, which traces the school from its beginnings in 1940 up to the present.
