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...York City, the most popular items at the gift shop of the Whitney Museum of American Art during this year's biennial exhibit were stone lions, at $500 to $1,000 a pop, made by New York-based Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Prospective purchasers had to submit applications explaining their feng shui problems. After considering each request, Cai decided who needed a lion most and then personally installed it. Many buyers were art collectors, but others included Deutsche Bank and the managing director of a venture-capital firm, whose lion is meant to compensate for his office's proximity...
...grainy, black-and-white compositions soon made their way to film festivals, and by the time she was 20 her "Pixelvision" videos were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Her 1998 video Flat Is Beautiful was screened at this year's Whitney Biennial. Now Benning, 27, is bringing her lo-fi aesthetic to an older medium: rock 'n' roll...
When the nine-member council held its biennial elections in November, several new faces entered the Cambridge political scene. Longtime councillor Sheila D. Russell and mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 did not run for re-election, deciding to step away from the city government spotlight after a combined 21 terms in office...
...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...