Annual plants complete their life cycle in one year; perennial plants live for three years or more. It's only intuitive that biennials have a two-year life cycle. But the plant is not the same both ...

Looking at the list of artists who have appeared most often in global art biennials since the last Documenta, in 2017, it becomes clear the extent to which the Biennial World functions as its own, ...

If you could somehow see every biennial or triennial in the last five years, what patterns would emerge? Which stars would shine brightest? For this project, we analyzed the artist lists for 211 ...

The city’s first Biennial of the Americas, a mashup of art exhibits and installations, cultural events and international dialogue strung together by a thread of hemispheric cooperation, came to an end ...

While the Whitney Museum of American Art’s webpage still defines the Whitney Biennial as “the longest-running survey of American art” (emphasis added), this year’s eighty-first installment will expand ...

The biennial exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art represents a big moment for contemporary art, featuring some of its biggest names. While works tackle various major social and political ...

The directors, who are part of an art collective, wind up stretching architecture’s net in so many directions that it begins to fray. By Christopher Hawthorne The writer, a senior critic at the Yale ...

The 81st Whitney Biennial, “Even Better Than The Real Thing,” feels decidedly anti-artificial intelligence. The introductory wall text puts it bluntly: the people behind the biennial “acknowledge that ...

Jeanette Mundt (b. 1982), Born Athlete American: Laurie Hernandez I, 2018. Oil and glitter on canvas, 50 x 60 in. (127 x 152.4 cm). Image courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin. Based on a 2016 ...