Not exact matches
MANCHESTER, U.K. — Researchers from all corners of Europe have flocked to the
biennial EuroScience Open Forum this week, where experts are showcasing scientific developments in a
broad range of fields and discussing science policy issues — plus offering career guidance.
The 2014 Whitney Biennial, the 77th in the museum's history and the last to be held in their Marcel Breuer - designed uptown location, is billed as one of «the
broadest and most diverse»
biennials in recent memory.
The
broad variety of artists featured in this year's
biennial reflects a cognizant effort of the organization to be inclusive in their curation.
It feels urgent and fitting to address the complexities of the
biennial context, and the
broader debates around nationality and (inter) dependence, by way of artistic practices in which the subversive and critical potential of humour is explored, that powerful affective force that is capable of opening up new perspectives on our existence beyond knowledge or rationality.
While Whitney Chief Curator Donna De Salvo dubbed 2013's
biennial «one of the
broadest and most diverse takes on art in the United States that the Whitney has offered in many years,» it featured only eight (non-fictional) black artists out of 103 total.
This trend is in line with a turn towards performance work in a
broader art world context (as seen in the 2012 Whitney
Biennial and the success of the Performa
biennial, for example).
Yet most
biennials around the world these days — and there are many, designed to introduce new art to a
broader public on the model of the Whitney Biennial or Venice Biennale — rely more heavily on artists or their dealers for production costs.
This reflects a
broader concern about how and where climate finance will be discussed in the UN climate negotiations after 2020, when the current system of annual workshops and
biennial ministerial dialogues is set to end.
Originally developed in 2007, the LIRA was re-benchmarked in April 2016 to a
broader market measure based on the
biennial American Housing Survey.