Recommended Venice Biennale Coverage:

In the Daily Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/art-and-photography?cid=hp:blogunit1

and The London Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/venice-biennale

And now the New York Times' Michael Kimmelman gives us a more acerbic view:
Small World Crammed on Biennale’s Grand Stage
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

The 53rd Venice Biennale is tidy, disciplined, cautious and unremarkable, suggesting a somewhat dull, deflated contemporary art world, professionalized to a fault, in search of a fresh consensus.

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