My interest in the subject of biennials and their participants’ national affiliations dates back to the Taipei Biennial of 2004, the fourth such event in our city, and my reaction to a curatorial ...

In 1893, the city of Chicago hosted the World’s Columbian Exposition – also known as the Chicago World’s Fair – having emerged as the preferred pick over other American cities, including New York and ...

Recently, I came across an example of curator speak: the kind of litany that has become a creed for the curatorial profession. ‘To displace the notion of the centre, to move the margins, to question ...

Since the National Trust took over the garden's care, the range of biennials used here has expanded to more than 20 types, varied each year and most of them grown in a large, open bed, west of the ...

Biennials usually form a rosette of foliage in their first year, harnessing sunlight and storing energy to allow them to burst into bloom in their second, before they set seed and die. They're easy ...

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 ...

It all starts with a dream and a plan to buy some land, or move into a homestead out in the country, all of a sudden having more land than you know what to do with, and what is the first thing you do?

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.

Cheap and cheerful to grow from seed, biennials are perfect for organised gardeners who enjoy planning ahead. Unlike annual plants, which complete their life cycle in one year, biennials live for two ...