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EXHIBITIONISTS: Three terrific artists at the Whitney Biennial...
Face it, you love the Whitney Biennial. You love a show that gives you, every two years, an opportunity to bemoan the state of art today, all those craven dealers, politically correct curators and jejune, salacious, hectoring artists. Well, good news: the 2004 edition of the Biennial is now open. With 108 mostly lesser-known contributors from around the U.S., it is sure to have something to make your skin crawl. But there are also those rare things, artists worth looking at. Here are three...
Walk around the contemporary photo-media works of the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art - at the Art Gallery of South Australia through May 30 - and death is everywhere. For visitors who can prise themselves away from Mike Parr, filmed sewing his face together in a kind of grimacing death mask, there's Adam Geczy's video elegy for the Port Arthur massacre, and TV footage of the Moscow theater siege glimpsed through the living-room curtains of Linda Wallace's installation Entanglements, 2004. Then there's the wicked whack of Destiny Deacon's bloodied boomerang in her enlarged Polaroid...
While the show highlights the inherent restlessness of the medium - in Craig Walsh's video Cross-Reference, 2004, distracted crowds filmed at a music festival peer through one of the gallery's fire doors - some of the best work in the Biennial is as still as a painting. Indeed, Rosemary Laing's latest suite of photographs, One Dozen Unnatural Disasters in the Australian Landscape, sits charmingly alongside a new exhibition of the colonial painter John Glover. If his A View of the Artist's House and Garden, 1835, shows how Glover tried to plant a corner of England...
...Green sat in Hollywood’s Kodak Theater for the 76th Academy Awards, where his 2003 film The Weather Underground was nominated for Best Documentary Feature. This Tuesday he was in New York, where the film was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s biennial exhibition...