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...works of Yasumasa Morimura, Nan Goldin (who is also included in this year's Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney), and Hunter Reynolds are also particularly engaging...
...talent at linking together the related strands which run through the ongoing dialogues between art, politics, and theory is especially striking when contrasted to the Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, which runs simultaneously with "Dress Codes" The Whitney Biennial showcases the most important art of the last two years. The 1993 Biennial asks many of the same questions as "Dress Codes" and points to many of the same issues, but the interconnectedness of these questions and issues gets lost in the many divergent strands of contemporary critical...
...Dress Codes" at the ICA, on the other hand, succeeds because it achieves a polyphony of voices centered on a recurrent theme. The organizers of the Biennial have attempted a similar approach, though ultimately, as a whole, they have created a cacophony of the latest theory and criticism. The Biennial is best taken in pieces and left as such...
...relationship between politics and art, a subject of much debate these days. The full-fledged critique on aesthetics has already been achieved, and art has been stripped to the bare bones of social constructions. This new understanding of art has brought about a theoretical overload, of which the Biennial's exhibition appears symptomatic...
...Preachy, Political Biennial...