The 52nd International Art Exhibition from La Biennale di Venezia will take place in Venice from June 10 to November 21, 2007.

The director of the 52nd International Art Exhibition is American curator, critic and artist Robert Storr. Formerly the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University (2002-2006), he is currently the Dean of the Yale School of Art and works as Consulting Curator of modern and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

From 1990 to 2002, he was Curator and Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. During his tenure there, Storr was instrumental in acquiring many important works that greatly enhanced the museum's collection. Among his exhibitions at MoMA are Elizabeth Murray (2005), Max Beckmann (2003, organized with the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the Tate Gallery, London), Gerhard Richter: 40 years of Painting (2002), Chuck Close (1998), Tony Smith: Painter, Architect, Sculptor (1998), and Robert Ryman (1993 in collaboration with the Tate Gallery). In 1995, he organized as coordinating curator an exhibition on Bruce Nauman (Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale's 48th International Art Exhibition in 1999), which was also presented at the São Paulo Biennale in 1998.

Among the many writings he has published, his Modern Art Despite Modernism (New York, 2000) reviews the anti-modern trends in painting and sculpture through the social, political and cultural conflicts of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.  He has been a contributing editor for Art in America since 1981, and his criticism has appeared in Art Press, ArtForum, The Art Journal, and The New York Times, among other publications.

The exhibition venues are the Italian Pavilion and the national pavilions at the Giardini, as well as the Corderie, the Artiglierie and other venues at the Arsenale.
Countries that do not own a pavilion and institutions that organise collateral events are exhibited in other venues in Venice.

Full details of the Biennale, including its history and full listings for 2007 can be viewed on their website www.labiennale.org