In less than two months, visitors will begin streaming into the Venice Biennale, an event often described as the art-world Olympics. But as hundreds of thousands of people take in the monumental works ...

What is the role of biennials, triennials, quadrennials, and even quinquennials in the contemporary art? For art world outsiders the significance and attention surrounding these events may be ...

FLOWERS ARE mostly either annuals or perennials, but there’s another middling category called biennials, which includes some pretty irresistible stuff. I’ve always found biennials mysterious, and ...

MAHKU’s Kapewe Pukeni, 2024, at the 60th Venice Biennale. Photo by AVZ. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia. While the Venice Biennale remains the undisputed grand dame of international biennial ...

A view of the database (courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art) When the first biennial exhibition of American art launched at the Whitney Museum in 1932, it was exceedingly rare for a cultural ...

The exhibition, co-curated by Whitney Museum of American Art staffers Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, will feature artists ...

With over 100 biennials around the world, international showcases for contemporary art are now so prolific, and come so rapidly, that they often seem more like major sporting events than exhibitions.

Steve Lambert’s Capitalism Works for Me gained steam, and eventually national recognition, after it appeared in the deCordova Biennial. SPACES Gallery via Flickr 2017 already has brought us a new ...

Contemporary art biennials are booming; there are now over 50 of these mega-shows worldwide. Unlike art trade fairs like Art Basel or the Armory Show, where dealers and galleries pay to exhibit, ...

We know when to plant annuals and perennials and when to expect their blooms. However, biennials grow according to their own genetic schedule. Understand that and they are manageable members of your ...

A white biennial plant in the sun - Saiglobalnt/Getty Images When browsing plants at a nursery, you will likely see two types of plants listed: annual and perennial. However, there's another kind of ...

Annual plants complete their life cycle in one year; perennial plants live for three years or more. It's only intuitive that biennials have a two-year life cycle. But the plant is not the same both ...