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...current edition, which opened on June 10, is more international than ever, with 76 participant nations, 34 of them at the Arsenale and the Giardini, the Biennale's main venues, and the rest scattered around the city. For each Biennale a "Commissioner" is chosen who organizes the big international group show that is a centerpiece of the fair. This is the first Biennale ever headed by an American, Robert Storr, a former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and dean of the School of Art at Yale University. "Biennales are a crash course in contemporary...
...what about the Western nations? Their pavilions luxuriate out at the Giardini, the wooded park that is the Biennale's second main site. The U.S. is represented this year by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who was just 38 when he died of aids-related illnesses in 1996. By that time he had already become widely known for work that gently undermined notions of how art operates. He made piles of posters that gallery visitors could take away, and spread fields of wrapped candy on the floors for them to pocket. His art could be as perishable as life, and as persistent...
...Israelis are more realistic and better-informed than Washington as to what's happening in Gaza, and its likely outcome. Many Israeli intelligence officers doubt that a last-minute infusion of weapons could shift the balance away from Hamas. By Tuesday at dusk, 200 Hamas fighters had besieged a main Fatah headquarters, where 500 fighters were holed up inside, and were pounding the building with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. By nightfall, Hamas had overrun their rivals' last bastion. Elsewhere in Gaza, say locals, droves of Fatah milita are surrendering. Israeli arms could be delivered to the gates of Gaza...
...Reichstag. He later said that his forceful tone had been influenced by his learning that East German police had forced people away from the wall to prevent them from hearing his speech over the loudspeakers. As the crowd fell quiet, Reagan began his address with signature folksiness. The main speechwriter, Peter Robinson, wanted Reagan to disarm the audience at the start, so he slipped a German line into the speech's opening. "Like many Presidents before me, I come here today because wherever I go, whatever I do: Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin." I still have a suitcase...
...main rival from Wallonia is Didier Reynders, the head of the liberal Reform Movement (MR), a 48-year-old energetic business-oriented conservative who hopes to catch some of the bounce from Nicolas Sarkozy's recent victory in France. Reynders, who is also Finance Minister, was even in Paris on May 6 to celebrate Sarkozy's triumph...