As new coronavirus variants emerge and mass-vaccination efforts roll out more slowly than anticipated, the organizers of design and architecture festivals and product trade shows have engaged in a new round of event postponements that feel like 2020 all over again. After canceling the Salone del Mobile last year, Milan’s famous furniture fair announced last November that it would shift its 2021 edition from April to early September. In January, Art Basel pushed back its Swiss flagship event from its traditional June slot to September, citing the “many uncertainties” of planning during the pandemic; the brand’s Swiss and Miami Beach art fairs were also canceled entirely in 2020.
Bucking the trend, the Venice Biennale has stuck to its springtime schedule, with the architecture edition of the international exhibition set to open for in-person attendance on May 22, 2021 after postponing last May to September and then cancelling altogether. “La Biennale di Venezia recently confirmed that the 17th International Exhibition of Architecture will open this May, as scheduled,” U.S. Pavilion co-curators Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner corroborated in a statement. “We continue to work with our team at [University of Illinois at Chicago] and La Biennale di Venezia to ensure that our exhibition for the U.S. Pavilion will be ready to safely open this May.”
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