Biennial of the Americas

A Tale of Two Biennials: Santa Fe and Denver

Leanne Goebel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Francesco Bonami, Dziga Vertov, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Mau, Biennial of the Americas, Bill T. Jones, Daniel Belasco, Mayor John Hickenlooper, Maria Lassnig, Rosa Martinez, Oscar Munoz, Sarah Lewis, Lotte Reiniger, Mary Reid Kelley, The Nature of Things, SITE Biennial, Paola Santoscoy, Dario Escobar, Kara Walker, David Adjaye, Lance Fung, Armando Miquelez, Dave Hickey, Edison Manufacturing Company, SITE Santa Fe, Rocco Landesman, Klaus Ottman, Gabrial Acevedo Velarde, Denver Biennial, The Dissolve, Robert Storr, William Kentridge, Santa Fe, Arts News
Leanne Goebel

Sixteen years ago, Santa Fe had a vision to establish a contemporary art museum with the focus of bringing contemporary art to the city with an accompanying biennial. In 2008, Denver decided to join the biennial craze.

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The King (Tut) Is in the Building!

Tracy Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Denver, King Tutankhamun, King Tut, Denver Art Museum, Biennial of the Americas, Denver News
Tracy Shaffer

What do you do when you discover royalty has just taken up residence in the neighborhood?

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Sarah McKenzie: A Nation Of Builders, And Of Artists

John Seed | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Suburbs, Biennial of the Americas, Lauri Lynxxe Murphy, Contemporary Art, Construction, Sprawl, Objectophilia, Development, Sarah McKenzie, Female Artists, Denver, Home News
John Seed

There isn't a single human figure in any of McKenzie's works of the past five years; they aren't necessary. Construction, a metaphor for human work, desire and hope stands in for actual human presence.

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Biennial "Already a Success"?

Leanne Goebel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mayor-John-Hickenlooper, Denver Biennial, Western Hemisphere, Paola Santoscoy, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Jeronimo Hagerman, Biennial, Biennial of the Americas, The Nature of Things, Brazil, Denver, Plus Gallery, Hemisphere, Ideas, Culture, Denver News
Leanne Goebel

I'm not willing to declare Denver's Biennial of the Americas a success or a failure. I'm waiting for the actual numbers (which I predict will be well below the mayor's hopeful figures).

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Denver Hosts the World

Tracy Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tracy Shaffer

Conceived over a year ago as a celebration of all things Western Hemisphere, the Biennial of the Americas has arrived. The culture, ideas and people of the Americas will be on display as Denver plays to an international audience

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Denver's Biennial of the Americas Comes Together

Leanne Goebel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: In Good We Trust, Teddy Cruz, Bruce Mau, Maria Del Carmen Carrion, Joseph Shaeffer, Denver, Rael San Fratello, Gabriel Acevedo, Alexis Rochas, Lauren Higgs, Biennial, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Felipe Mujica, The Nature of Things, Denver Biennial, Jonathan Root, Denver-Colorado, Paola Santoscoy, Biennial of the Americas, Jeronimo Hagerman, Nicolas De Moncheaux, Victor Munoz, Santiago Cucullu, Sandra Nakamura, Alexandra Solomon, Kate Lesta, Lucia Koch, Brigida Baltar, Clark Richert, Estefania Penafiel, cypher13, Denver News
Leanne Goebel

There are over 200 biennials that claim to take snapshots of what is happening in the contemporary art world.

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