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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this year’s Biennale does little to tie all of these elements together into a coherent overall exhibition. Admittedly, connecting circus posters with photographs of execution cells is a daunting task, but Director Harald Szeemann’s title “Platea dell’umanita,” (Plateau of Humankind) proves too grandiose to be noble. It remains unclear what, exactly, is the on this plateau: Is it the exalted artists? Is it the ideas of (in)humanity that they express? Or is it the Biennale itself? The implication seems to be that visitors...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burning Up: Art Sizzles at the Biennale | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

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