Sarah Milroy writes that “most of us who attended the [Venice] Biennale’s three press days last week agreed that this is the best Biennale we had seen in years… Many of the leading nations have made their best curatorial picks in a long time,” and director Robert Storr “is indisputably one of the great curators working today, making exhibitions that display both a high degree of aesthetic discrimination, a depth of historical understanding and an impeccable sense of timing.”