A Festival of Imported Importance: BIAF 2026 and the Provincialism of Prestige
There are at least two ways for an international arts festival to be provincial. The first is obvious: isolation, lack of money, lack of access, lack of connection to the international artistic circuit. The second is more interesting. It begins when all those problems have apparently been solved. The money is there. The stars arrive. […] The full version of the article A Festival of Imported Importance: BIAF 2026 a…