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...structure and content. This year the task fell to a Neapolitan art critic named Achille Bonito Oliva. Bonito Oliva is a mini-celebrity in Italy, an imbonitore, or bustling promoter, of groups and movements, who gave the '80s its silliest piece of art jargon, "la transavanguardia," the "trans-avant-garde." He wanted to create a Biennale that would transcend national differences and illustrate "cultural nomadism." To put it charitably, his talents are not up to the task...
...Larry Sanders Show on HBO, MTV's Beavis and Butt-head and the new Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, Last Action Hero. Such a fin-de-siecle moment: Schwarzenegger, the son of an Austrian Nazi, starring in a $70 million special-effects action blockbuster that owes everything to a brilliant avant- garde 1921 play by Luigi Pirandello, the Italian Fascist...
SPECTATOR: The Avant Is Letting Down Its Garde...
...There's just something traumatic when the college-radio band you love ends up as background music on Melrose Place. After the critical and commercial success of Jane's Addiction, Farrell wisely sought out new challenges. He founded Lollapalooza, the traveling summer carnival of music that showcases pop's avant-garde (this year it will feature such acts as Arrested Development); he made a low-budget feature film called Gift (out in limited release this year); and, along with former Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins, he created Porno for Pyros...
...sings with beauty and power. The men's cramped quarters and surrounding tiers of cagelike squalor become a park, a movie palace, a Russian alley, even a vast, symbolic spiderweb through inspired film projections by set designer Jerome Sirlin, making a dazzling Broadway debut after a career in the avant- garde and in opera...