The Antarctic Biennale: a crazy idea becomes reality

I have to declare an interest here. I am the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Antarctic Biennale and I consider this the proudest title of my career, although it has had some rocky moments since I got involved last May. The art world is a hyper-sensitive, PC and suspicious place, very far from the artistic myth of bohemian lackadaisicalness. The Russians go in for inspired improvisationlets call it the Italian style of doing thingswhich crashes into the cautious Nordic way of planning e