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As Newell Harry asks, what’s the point of being king sh_t of turd island? Heaps, says Carrie Miller…
“Hou Hanru’s 2007 Istanbul Biennial was a notoriously unwieldy affair. “Not Only Possible But Also Necessary: Optimism in a Time of Global War” assembled an unprecedented number of artists in multiple venues (two of them unreachable except via taxi), under
Protest at the opening ceremony of the Beijing 798 Biennale “The inaugural Beijing 798 Biennale, held in the sprawling 798 art district in China’s capital, saw a chaotic opening on 15 August, with major works by Chinese artists widely censored
Last week’s post It Don’t Add Up was a contribution from a reader, an actual doctor in an actual university who knows about such things. The reader’s point was simple – the formula for the creation art didn’t quite mean
“Except for Ken Yonetani’s Sweet Barrier Reef, a rather dull comment on the effects of consumerism on nature, the Australian off-site project Once Removed curated by Felicity Fenner offers a refreshing insight into the predicament of displacement. Undoubtedly part of
The Biennale of Sydney has put out an advance brochure that contains the two equations: art + beauty + empathy = power power – beauty – empathy = tyranny Anyone with a primary school understanding of mathematics knows that if
From Joanna Mendelssohn… The Director of the 53rd Venice Biennale, Director Daniel Birnbaum, says that the title Making Worlds ‘expresses my wish to emphasize the process of creation’. The problem is that for the most part this process seems to
The paltry offerings from Australian art critics sojourning in Italy for the 2009 Venice Biennale have been thus far the usual predictable fare – pithy putdowns for art they have no time for, offering instead a blanket refusal to engage
From John Kelly… Entering the TARDIS – an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space , I go walkabout within the monolith that contains The Meaning of Life. I race across time eating Mad Max’s dust as he tears
Following on from her exhibition preview Isobel Johnston returns with this report on the Biennale, for real… This year’s Biennale of Sydney is a demonstrably rigorous curated exhibition involving 180 artists over several physical locations and online. Not that didacticism