User:Czar/drafts/History of the Venice Biennale

Origins

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origins of national pavilions

The Biennale began to select artistic directors from Italy for a central exhibition, beginning in the 1980s, and expanded the practice to non-Italians in 1995. Prior to the introduction of the central exhibition as a centerpiece in 1972, the Biennale was closer to a world's fair of dissimilar exhibitions.

prizes

art for sale kept commission on sales until 1968