Whitney Biennial Curators Chosen

Two European curators - Chrissie Iles, who is English, and Philippe Vergne, who is French - have been chosen to organize the 2006 Whitney Biennial, possibly Americas most influential survey of contemporary American art. Iles is a curator at the Whitney, and Vergne the senior curator of visual arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In September he was named director of the new Francois Pinault Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris, opening in late 2007. Irish Art