A New Tone For The Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale’s new director has big changes planned in an attempt to bring some order to the event. “Bringing a touch of rigorous business thinking to proceedings, he has announced a programme for the next three years, starting with next month’s edition of the festival, which he hopes will present “a clearer picture of where we are, and how we got there” to the world. This year’s 51st Biennale, directed by two Spanish curators, María de Corral and Rosa Martínez, (the first co-curatorship, and the first women to do the job), is already much slimmed down in terms of artists involved: just 91 contenders will bring their work to the city.”