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Haughty decrees are one of the French state's specialties. In a proclamation issued in April 1999, Minister for Culture Cathérine Trautmann announced her intention to create a new exhibition space in Paris for young artists - modeled on existing centers in London, Amsterdam, Berlin and New York - in an attempt to revive the French capital's flagging reputation on the international contemporary art circuit. This delicate mission was entrusted to Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans, a pair of maverick art critics and exhibition curators who wowed the faceless bureaucrats at the Culture Ministry with...
...space are randomly gashed and pockmarked. The café's price list is scrawled onto sheets of brown paper and stuck to untreated concrete pillars with gaffer tape. Using public money and private contributions from sponsors like Pioneer and Bloomberg, Bourriaud and Sans recreated the atmosphere of a seedy Berlin squat in the heart of Paris' opulent 16th arrondissement. But what does all this nouveau squalor have to do with contemporary art? The curators don't explain. Nor do they say why they didn't simply move into one of the many dilapidated industrial sites around Paris. Presumably, their intended...
...hope for a new kind of Soviet Union: more open, more concerned with the welfare of its citizens and less with the spread of its ideology and system abroad." What did spread, at home and abroad, was a fever of democratic reform. Soviet satellite states gained independence. The Berlin Wall fell. The cold war faded. The ferment grew chaotic and eventually swept away Gorbachev and the Soviet Union. But for surviving so long and so boldly and imaginatively as "the patron of change," Gorbachev was again TIME's choice in 1989, this time as the Person of the Decade...
...other ways al-Qaeda is more difficult because it has nothing solid and concrete to hit at. When we were fighting Hitler's Germany, the closer you got to Berlin the more certainly you were going to destroy Nazism. But because al-Qaeda is amorphous and we don't know quite where it is based, how big it is, how much money it's got and who its personnel are, in a way it's more difficult than defeating Nazi Germany. If fighting Hitler was like trying to destroy a powerful bacterium, fighting al-Qaeda is like trying to destroy...
...Have Him" (1949), by Nancy Wilson (1962) on "Capitol Sings Irving Berlin." But really "I've got to have him"; this two-part song from "Miss Liberty" itemizes the domestic indulgences a wife, then a mistress would lavish on the man they share. Starting sassy (a younger Eartha Kitt) and growing by turns mellow and desolate, Wilson gives a bravura performance the more remarkable for its emotional precision...