"For decades, the US Pavilion followed a familiar script: museums would submit proposals to a panel of experts formed by the [NEA], with the panel having final say over which proposal would win. This year, that system was scrapped. The State Department instead turned to the American Arts Conservancy, led by Jenni Parido, a Florida-based founder [and pet store owner] without museum experience, working with independent curator Jeffrey Uslip."

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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/alma-allens-u-s-pavilion-heads-to-venice-1234781956/

The 2026 Whitney Biennial Delivers American Art for a Fractured Age

https://misryoum.com/us/today/the-2026-whitney-biennial-delivers-american-art-for/

The 2026 Whitney Biennial 2026 runs through August. Darian DiCianno/BFA.com If the Whitney Biennial takes the temperature of American art—and of the society that produces it—the cacophony of fragments, relics and semi-fictional or dystopian allusions in this edition captures...

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Part of the garden by the side of the house. Used to be a bare, utilitarian strip with only the tree, shrubs and hedging. I then transformed it into something more appealing over the course of three or four years. Wildflower mounds towards the back.
In the centre of the photograph, the bigger of our two Angelica archangelica (Garden angelica).
They are biennials but, curiously, in their third (!) year.
‣ Upright. Click to see all.

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