Posts: Beyond

Oooooh, curator Larry Rinder’s upcoming Whitney Biennial is going to be fun. The huffing has already started. Painter Gregory Amenoff sniffed “This Biennial certainly doesn’t seem to represent what most people in the art world actually do, - according to Newsweek’s Peter Plagens. Plagens, who followed Rinder around for a while as he put the show together, files an entertaining report.

- Meredith Tromble [Thursday, February 28th, 2002]

simply mindblowing work, created by Afghan women refugees.

- Ella Delaney [Monday, February 25th, 2002]

Robert Hughes as the director of the next Venice Biennale? Should make for an interesting contrast with the next Dokumenta. (See the note on Dokumenta in Quick Stretch, January 24.)

- Meredith Tromble [Wednesday, February 6th, 2002]

Ed Gilbert, director of Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, posts a thoughtful letter from Venice in the winter issue of Zyzzyva.

- Meredith Tromble [Monday, February 4th, 2002]

Dokumenta 11 will not start until June 8 in Kassel, but is already up and running in the guise of “transparent research,” according to director Okwui Enwezor. German art writer Thomas Wagner is a little cranky about sharing Dokumenta with New Delhi, Lagos, and other cities.

- Meredith Tromble [Thursday, January 24th, 2002]

something fun from England.

- Meredith Tromble [Wednesday, January 23rd, 2002]

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