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![The 19th Biennale of Sydney: Cockatoo Island and the MCA](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-1140x666.jpg)
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![The Splendour and The Rapture: BOS19 Artists Announced](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan; A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea
![Engberg for BOS19](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
“The Biennale of Sydney, as one of the most established and certainly one of the largest of the world’s biennales, provides an exciting and challenging opportunity for curatorial development.”
![BOS18: Art Gallery of NSW](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Unlike the last Biennale in 2010, themes chosen at each venue are coherent, if not a little overworked…
![BOS18: Museum of Contemporary Art](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
The most successful works in BOS18 at the MCA are those where the artist has taken a traditional technique and reinvigorated it in a contemporary context.
![BOS18: Cockatoo Island](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
While Cockatoo Island provides an incredible location for a Biennale audience it simultaneously poses a delight and a curse for curators and artists.
![Biennale of Sydney: more popular than ever](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Invited to assess the 2010 Biennale of Sydney for a forum at the UNSW College of Fine Art, Andrew Frost found it harder to make up his mind than he had thought…