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Montreal Biennial Director Resigns Six Months Before Exhibition Slated To Open
Just six months after taking the helm, and only six months before the 2013 Montreal Biennial (BNL MTL) opens its doors, director Nicole Gingras has resigned. The Centre international d’art...
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New Director for Montreal Biennial Heralds Further Change
Rising Quebecois curator and editor Sylvie Fortin has been named executive and artistic director of the Montreal Biennale, a position that will bring her to Montreal from Kingston, where she has been...
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Montreal Biennial Curators Explain the Show’s 50 Participating Artists
The Montreal art world has finally hatched its darling, the Montreal Biennial. Absorbing the critically-acclaimed Quebec Triennial, last year, and following the previous biennial’s sudden reform, a...
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Dispatches from the Montréal Biennial: Andrea Bowers’s Piece on the...
To create the multi-part piece “Courtroom Drawings (Steubenville Rape Case, Text Messages Entered As Evidence, 2013),” 2014, LA-based artist Andrea Bowers transcribed the texts by hand as they were...
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Dispatches from the Montréal Biennial: Lawrence Weiner Texts on the Arctic
Three text pieces by Lawrence Weiner are the only works in the biennial not created in the past few years. Conceived in 1969, when Weiner was living and working Montréal, they arose from a trip he...
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Dispatches from the Montréal Biennial: Aging Communities Contemplate the Future
In two single-channel video installations — “Postcard from Bexhill-on-Sea” and “La Providence” — Montréal-based artist Emmanuelle Léonard visited two aging communities: Montréal’s Grey Nuns and a...
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Dispatches from the Montréal Biennial: Cybernetic Tarot
British artist Suzanne Treister’s contribution to the biennial includes two massive (and massively intricate) marker-on-wall drawings as well as a suite of 78 tarot card drawings — all made with the...
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Dispatches from the Montréal Biennial: Arctic Perspective Initiative
Without some explanation, the myriad objects on view created by artist duo Arctic Perspective Initiative might seem like props from a science fiction movie. However, the complicated field tools —...
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