Word: biennially
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Among the few respectable things in that stew of American vanguard kitsch, the 1985 Whitney Biennial, was a large painting by a 36-year-old artist named Terry Winters. Done in a thick, ocherous impasto, which produced a paint surface that looked both lavish and summarily abbreviated, the image suggested (of all unlikely things) mushrooms: swollen glands like morels, crinkled and cellular, standing up in ranks like an array of mysterious brown balloons. It was odd to find any painting in such a show that addressed itself--however obliquely or eccentrically--to nature. But its relation to nature...
...opening of the biennial meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Nassau was glittery as Queen Elizabeth greeted leaders from 46 of Britain's former colonies. But behind the trappings lurked a divisive issue: apartheid. The target was British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who is against imposing economic sanctions on Pretoria. There must be "sustained pressure" against apartheid, said Brian Mulroney of Canada. South Africa is a "total pariah," declared Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Thatcher said she would support an Australian proposal to establish a "contact group" to urge South African President P.W. Botha to negotiate with...
Accordingly, it was in an atmosphere of considerable tension that some 4,500 delegates, parliamentarians, party functionaries, journalists and foreign observers gathered in the southwestern city of Toulouse last week for the Socialists' biennial congress. The delegates' agenda: to draw up the main lines of a new party policy and hammer out a strategy for the election campaign. Their real mission: to resolve the party's identity crisis and find ways to restore its lost respect. "Toulouse is not the congress of disillusion and defeat, as they would have us believe," insisted Gaston Defferre, one-time presidential candidate, former Interior...
...then vacantly tough. Their work is all pose and no position. Thus, from Kenny Scharf's mural of Silly Putty aliens in a galactic landscape of squiggles and David Wojnarowicz's repulsive Attack of the Alien Minds, through the visual fatuities of Rodney Alan Greenblat and Jedd Garet, the biennial celebrated what its curators evidently took to be the mood of the moment: glitz, camp, childishness and art as fashion, served up with the usual parsley about "renewals" and "advances." This gunk is not even kitsch. And behind it lie untapped reserves of worse gunk, for thanks to universal...
When French President Francois Mitterrand attended the biennial Paris Air Show in 1981, many of the bombs, cannons and rockets had to be hidden, and advanced Mirage 2000 jet fighters streaked overhead stripped of their air-to-air missiles. Things were different when Mitterrand visited the current air show and viewed the lethal products of France's armaments industry, from a variety of missiles to armed Mirages. The episode was evidence of how Mitterrand and his ruling Socialists have gone from criticizing France's arms trade as unprincipled to promoting a business that is sorely needed to boost exports. Declared...