At an event with Mayor John Tory himself, the Toronto Biennial announced that it will open in fall 2019, run for 90 days and showcase anywhere from dozens to hundreds of artists. It was in July 2015, a day by virtue of the extreme improbability of its events that should have been freezing cold: not one but two art biennials, right here in Toronto, were making strides forward at exactly the same time . “I feel like the city, and the art community, have been wanting a biennial for decades,” she says. By 2016, the study was done and the city indicated its support, and the Biennial took another step forward. It means, says Libralato, happily, that “the thing is a thing.”For a Toronto art world that has heard talk of such a thing going back decades, it seems almost impossible.

Source: thestar November 16, 2017 16:52 UTC