Word: biennially
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...main attraction at this year's Whitney Biennial is a black curtain or, more accurately, what is hidden behind it. To this day, a uniformed guard is stationed outside Hans Haacke's "Sanitation" in anticipation of a mob. Story has it that during the early days of the Biennial, the guard did indeed earn his keep, but today, as disinterested museum-goers walk briskly by, he looks superfluous, if not ornamental...
...gathering crowd is no indication of artistic achievement. The critical consensus at the 2000 Biennial, though, has closely mirrored popular opinion. This was the year of the video: Douglas Aitken's installation "Electric Earth," which chronicles the nocturnal wanderings of a young black man through the streets of Los Angeles, was widely praised, along with Shirin Neshat's "Fervor." The Biennial is in an unusual position: it has to function as a two-year retrospective of contemporary American art while still keeping up with shows like P.S.1's. Aitken's piece, which was featured on the cover of the exhibition...
...Biennial 2000 will be at the Whitney Museum in New York through June...
...peeled banana. Rows of blue ashtrays lined up against a bright yellow background. A baby girl playing in the sand. Get the connection? Neither do I. Yet it is the very randomness of the electronic images displayed in Ben Benjamin's superbad.com one of nine websites showcased in the Biennial Exhibition, through June 4 at the Whitney Museum in New York City, that makes the site so intriguing. As you struggle to make sense of it all, you find yourself drawn deeper and deeper into its playful maze...