I loved the 2006 Biennial. I mean...not all of it, but most of it I really liked.

This year I really didn't connect with anything

Karen Kilminik had four paintings in the Biennial. I felt like her work was totally under-represented. It took me a moment or two to make the association between the small paintings and the chandelier hung in the room. Once I did make the connection, I remembered that I saw her show at the Musee d'Art Modern in Paris in 2006, and her installations were absolutley wonderful. But you'd never get that from what was shown here.

There was so little to like this year: so many small pieces that, without a greater context, meant nothing.



Two things I liked: Louise Lawler photographs (she's always great, right?) and Jedediah Caesar: Drystock.


One thing I 100% loved: Mungo Thomson's "Coat Check Chimes". This was brilliant and beautiful and totally perfect. (Swapping out the regular coat hangers in the lobby for chime hangers...every time someone hung or retrieved a coat=magic!)