by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on March 7, 2014
Earlier in the day we debated whether the Independent was anything other than a fair (it’s not). Now we discuss the art in the fair. We had a lot more to say about the Independent than we did the Armory Show, so that’s at least one good sign for its future.
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by Paddy Johnson on August 31, 2012
“This is not a biennial” Festival Manager Lene Crone Jensen told the press gravely last week at the Copenhagen Art Festival. Coulda fooled me; the Copenhagen Art Festival already has the generic biennial-specific themes and inflated art-speak to make the transition an easy one should it so chose. “What are the implications of constituting a discourse of communities?” asks a bit of copy on the Copenhagen Art Festival website, as it describes the community minded-theme of the festival. It sounds like biennial.
Whatever it is, it’s not especially remarkable.
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