EXHIBIT: THE VENICE BIENNALE
WHERE: VARIOUS SITES IN THE CITY
WHAT: CONTEMPORARY WORK FROM AROUND THE WORLD
THE BOTTOM LINE: This dull, incoherent survey gives radicalism a bad name.
Any way you slice it, the 45th Venice Biennale of contemporary art, which opened to the public last week, is a failure. The more interesting parts of it tend to be the peripheral shows -- a fine homage to Francis Bacon installed in the 18th century rooms of the Museo Correr, on St. Mark's Square, and some multimedia pieces by filmmaker Peter Greenaway and stage designer Robert Wilson in a section called...
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