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NY Phil Biennial laudable, yet in need of curatorial vision - LA Times
Critic's Notebook NY Phil Biennial laudable, yet in need of curatorial vision Mark Swed LOS ANGELES TIMES mark.swed@ latimes.com
JUNE 5, 2014, 5:30 AM
Members of Bridge to Nowhere perform for the NY Phil Biennial. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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EW YORK — A biennial, as practiced by the art world, is a devotion, a talking stock every other year. It is also pure catnip for a culture maven hooked on being up-to- date.
The New York Philharmonic is now the first major orchestra to emulate the Whitney Museum with a big institutional bi-yearly survey of the now. It began last week with two disappointingly insignificant operas but then exploded over the weekend with a bevy of intriguingly diverse concerts. By the time it concludes Saturday, the NY Phil Biennial will have gotten around to a Whitney-sized offering of nearly 80 works by 74 composers in venues around Manhattan. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ny-phil-biennial-notebook-20140605-column.html
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