Shanghai Docent

Pronounced BEE-AN-NAH-LEY. It's Italian for Biennial and like the name suggests, happens every other year. The event is hosted by the Shanghai Art Museum in People's Square but takes place at numerous venues across the city. With its various talks, lectures, exhibitions and installations, Shanghai's Biennale of yore have wavered between cutting edge and stale. This year's event comes on the heels of the Beijing Olympics so it should draw some massive crowds and hopefully a little "out there" performance art.