Biennial Quotes

We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again. (Everett Dirksen)
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. View quote
Fisher Ames
Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work. View quote
Jerry Saltz
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent. View quote
Jerry Saltz
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. View quote
Jerry Saltz