The Venice Biennale boils down to a competition

This summer Richard Serra unveiled a major suite of eight sculptures at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, culminating, in effect, a body of work inaugurated with his first Torqued Ellipses nearly a decade ago

Robert Beaver’s extraordinary films have for decades gone largely unseen in the US. Next month the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York mounts the first compete retrospective of Beaver’s work