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Article: Biennale de Montreal 2007: can art exhibitions have upsets, just like a sports competition? Leila Pourtavaf reports from Montreal.
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- C: International Contemporary Art
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- September 22, 2007
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In the shadows of the big-name international art events of this past summer, the fifth Montreal Biennale opened the season with Crack the Sky, organized by Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montreal and curated by Wayne Baerwaldt, director and curator of Illingworth Kerr Gallery at the Alberta College of Art and Design (and former director of the Power Plant in Toronto). The Biennale was initially scheduled for 2006, but for financial reasons was rescheduled to open in May 2007. In a departure from previous editions, Crack the Sky hosted a series of exhibitions and events dispersed across the city in a variety of venues. While the ...