The Biennale and Museum Exhibitions Effect on Frieze The 56th Biennale of Venice opened a month earlier than usual this year. When the Biennale normally opened each June just before Art Basel, galleries cognizant of the buyers coming from it would know to bring artists whose works were seen there. There would be an indirect influence of how the market swung in terms of preferences and prices of course. But this year it opened in May instead, just before Frieze in New York, an