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Twice each year. It is used in business in a variety of circumstances. For example, a board of directors may meet or the company may distribute dividends biannually. Biennial means the same thing. See also: Quarter.

biennial

Occurring every 2 years. Contrast with biannual, which means occurring twice a year. (It's important to know the difference if an adjustable-rate mortgage provides for rate changes biannually or biennially.)

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Established in 1993 and handed over to the Sharjah Art Foundation in 2009, the Sharjah Biennial has grown into a reliable showcase for local, regional and international developments in contemporary art.

Sharjah Biennial art exhibitions enrich Gulf's cultural discourse

Biennials, like any large institution, are always caught between being seen as income generators and drains on resources.

Biennial boom

So biennials are the Meryl Streep side of things, above even the museums.

Biennials

The Biennial, open till May 13, has taken up residence at the newly inaugurated SAF Art Spaces led by SAF President Shaikha Hoor Al Qasimi.

Culture in-stalled

Biggs sat on the board of trustees for the very first festival in 1999, r un by Australian curator Anthony Bond, then stepped in as the Biennial's chief executive in 2000.

Biennial became the art of the city; Outgoing Liverpool Biennial chief executive Lewis Biggs sits down to chat with Laura Davis

So it's farewell to Biggs, who stepped in as the Biennial's chief executive in 2000, having sat on its board of trustees as Tate Liverpool director for the very first festival in 1999,run by Australian curator Anthony Bond.

The leaving of Liver rrpool Biennial; Lewis Biggs talks to Laura Davis about his decade of running the city's visual arts festival as he prepares to leave his post

Throughout the entire month of July, the Biennial celebration will offer visitors cross-cultural experiences through a wide array of art exhibits, live music, and special cultural programming.

Mile-high Biennial

Whichever biennials you choose to sow, they all look best when planted in profusion, not in straight lines.

Create your own Victorian cottage garden; GARDENDIARY

In preparation for the 2009 Sharjah Biennial, Jack Persekian, the artist director of the event, says that there are new plans and new directions to be taken.

Making the UAE inspirational

For the Fifth Berlin Biennial, opening on April 5, curators Adam Szymczyk, director of the Kunsthalle Basel, and Elena Filipovic, an independent art critic and curator, have extended this nascent tradition by dividing their exhibition into halves, which they call "Day" and "Night." "Day" consists of artworks and commissioned projects on view at three main venues--the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, which oversees the biennial; the upper level of the Neue Nationalgalerie, Mies van der Rohe's late-modernist glass box just southwest of Potsdamer Platz; and the artist-run Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum, a network of sixty-two centrally located vacant lots situated in the former no-man's land between East and West Berlin.

Art day's night: Brian Sholis on the 5th Berlin Biennial

The 1995 Biennial was noted for a heavy representation of works exploring sexuality and the body, implying, again, that these reflected preoccupations in American society as a whole.

The kids are alright

In response to the success of these three major exhibitions, and the desire of national and local governments to signify their own status as international hubs, biennials and triennials mushroomed across Asia from the mid-1990s onwards.