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Article: It's Biennial Time.(Periscope; MODERN ART)(Whitney Biennial)(Brief article)
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- Newsweek International
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- April 7, 2008
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Byline: Katie Baker
The Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennial show has long been heralded as a survey of the most influential up-and-comers, and also derided as a hit-or-miss exhibit that fails to live up to its hype. The reality, of course, falls somewhere in between, and this year's exhibit--running through June 1--is no exception. Some of the works are sublime: Venezuela-born Javier Tellez films six blind people interacting with an elephant, in a literal adaptation of the old proverb on the limits of knowledge; Jedediah Caesar sculpts Technicolor resin into formations that bubble like the surface of some far-off planet; Daniel Joseph Martinez fills a room ...
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