Digest: Fall 2009. The Third Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art

Find out about Jean Hubert Martin's remake of Magiciens de la Terre, and the Moscow audience's reaction, as well an oversaturated parallel program with not one but two art fairs to boot. ›››

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  16.11.2009 · in english

  Biennial Diary. Part Three

  DAVID RIFF barely survived the Moscow Biennial and asked himself whether there is such a thing as aesthetic conservatism in the good sense of the word›››

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  16.11.2009 · in english

  Biennial Diary. Part Two

  DAVID RIFF saw many chickens, one moray eel, and one very good exhibition of avant-gardists from the 1980s ›››

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  16.11.2009 · in english

  Biennial Diary. Part One

  DAVID RIFF comes close to collapse as he visits the first portion of exhibitions at the Moscow biennial's parallel program. ›››

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  24.09.2009 · in english

  Digest Summer 2009

  OPENSPACE.RU will be bringing you monthly digests in English. This time: Russian self-representations at the Venice biennial, young art in Moscow, government plans for a new museum, and the introduction of contemporary art to regional Russia›››

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  23.09.2009 · in english

  Letter from Ekaterinburg: The "Dubaization" of the Urals

  Here they believe in creativity and money just as firmly as they once did in socialism›››

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  10.06.2009 · in english

  Letter from Vienna: From the Top of the Tower of Babel

  Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina enter into a dialogue with Brueghel and Duerer›››

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  08.04.2009 · in english

  Letter from Dubai: Contemporary Art for the Sheikhs

  The glittering facade of contemporary art covers the medieval lawlessness and monstrosity of power. But this isn't Moscow›››

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  23.03.2009 · in english

  Letter from Belarus: In the Absence of Art

  Most Belarusian contemporary artists have long since left the country. Why are these two still around? ›››

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  23.01.2009 · in english

  Letter from Berlin: "There Will Be More Bullshit As the Crisis Deepens"

  Hito Steyerl and David Riff worry that the YBAs will soon be making political art›››

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