12th Biennale of Sydney.VARIOUS VENUES As a fitting prelude to the Sydney 2000 Olympics, this Biennale's board has conscripted a curatorial A-team--Fumio Nanjo, Louise Neri, Hetti Perkins, Sir Nicholas Serota Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota (born April 27, 1946) is a curator, and is currently Director of the Tate Gallery, the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art. As such he is often involved in controversy. He was the driving force behind the creation of Tate Modern. , Robert Storr Robert Storr is an American curator, academic, critic, and painter. He was named Dean of the Yale School of Art for a five-year period beginning July 2006 and is the director of the Venice Biennale in 2007. , Harald Szeemann Harald Szeemann (born June 11 1933 in Bern; died February 18 2005 in Tegna, Ticino) was a Swiss curator and art historian. Life After studying art history, archaeology and journalism in Bern and Paris, Szeemann worked in 1956 as an actor, stage designer and painter, and , and Nick Waterlow--to assemble an artistic pantheon of millennial proportions. With just a handful of exceptions, all fifty (mostly living) participants are certified hall-of-famers, who, to quote the press release, "have made a major impact on the thinking and values of our time." Gerhard Richter, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Yayoi Kusama, and the like will strut their historical stuff at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) located in The Domain in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the second largest in Australia after the National Gallery of Victoria. , and a string of smaller venues. Let the fame begin. May 26-July 30. |
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