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June 17, 2007
Video Venice - A Biennale That Flickers "With so
much flickering newsreel on show, the biennale as a
whole feels as preachy as an Islamic bookstore. It's
short on wow factor, and heavy on words. You'll have
gathered by now that what is missing from this biennale
is some art by grown-ups: the signature pieces, the
leaps of invention. They exist, but they have to be
sniffed out." The Times (UK)
06/17/07
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The Comeback Biennale Sarah Milroy writes that "most
of us who attended the [Venice] Biennale's three press
days last week agreed that this is the best Biennale we
had seen in years... Many of the leading nations have
made their best curatorial picks in a long time," and
director Robert Storr "is indisputably one of the great
curators working today, making exhibitions that display
both a high degree of aesthetic discrimination, a depth
of historical understanding and an impeccable sense of
timing." The Globe & Mail (Canada)
06/16/07
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The Ever-Evolving Venice Biennale "Few glimpses are
left of [the Venice Biennale's] imperial past, where it
was still believed that culture might be stamped with a
national identity - or vice versa. Confronting
nationalism now means a walk across the lawn fronting
the bone-dry white façade of the Brazilian pavilion,
only to be confronted by an impossibly skinny Japanese
transvestite teetering around on elevator shoes posing
for Egyptian tourists." Toronto
Star 06/16/07
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Three Replacing One At Art Basel "Sam Keller,
director of Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach for
seven years, is stepping down to become director of the
Beyeler Foundation in Basel. Art Basel organizers
announced on Tuesday that he was being replaced" by a
triumvirate of directors, who will split the managerial
duties into artistic, fiscal, and strategic
compartments. The New York Times
(second item) 06/16/07
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A Tangible Display Of The Dangers Of Warming An
artist in New York is slowly making her way across the
city, tracing a single, thick chalk line onto pavement
and sidewalk. A meditation on linear thought? A revolt
against the tyranny of traffic lanes? Nope - she's
quietly tracing the line scientists believe will
represent the edge of the great flood that could destroy
chunks of America's largest city as a result of climate
change. The New York Times 06/16/07
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Great Architecture For The Masses "Pieces of
architectural history sit on Milwaukee's south side - a
row of four duplexes and two cottages designed by Frank
Lloyd Wright more than 90 years ago for low- to
moderate-income families. But years of extreme
makeovers, including aluminum siding added to one house,
rendered some of them shells of their former designs.
Now a nonprofit group wants to restore the Frank Lloyd
Wright charm to one of the single-family homes... The
group hopes to make it a museum, inspire others to
renovate the four remaining structures and motivate
architects to design housing for the disadvantaged."
Dallas Morning News (AP) 06/16/07
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Clark Institute Gets $90m In Cash And Art Boston's
Clark Art Institute has received a gift of $50m, along
with $40m worth of great English art. "Turners,
Constables, Gainsboroughs, and other pieces from the
English Romantic period of the early 1800s" are included
in the gift, which came from the estate of the late Sir
Edwin Manton. The donation is the largest ever received
by the Clark. Boston Globe 06/16/07
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