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An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts. A festival is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on some unique aspect of that community.
Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions. Artists' participation in the most important such exhibitions (such as the Venice Biennale) is by invitation, and these exhibitions are organised by internationally recognized curators chosen by a committee of peers. These international exhibitions must be distinguished from art fairs, market-oriented gatherings of art dealers and their wares, which have recently emerged as among the most important art-world venues for contemporary art in the present-day super-heated art market.
Leading arts festivals include the
Edinburgh Festival in
Edinburgh, which is the largest arts festival on
Earth,
Adelaide Festival of Arts in
Adelaide and
Festival d'Avignon in
Avignon.[1]
