Like salesmen, science-fiction addicts and orthopedists, art lovers have conventions too. They are international in scope, the occasion for awarding prizes, and come every two years, presumably on the theory that it takes at least that much time for things to change. Most prestigious of those conventions are the Venice Biennale (70 years old), Pittsburgh's Carnegie International (69 years old) and the relative newcomer, Brazil's São Paulo Bienal, started in 1951.
By the time the public gets in for a look, as is happening this week at São Paulo's eighth Bienal, most...
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