Word: biennials
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...axiom that next to running the National Endowment for the Arts, curating the Whitney Biennial is the worst job in American culture. Every two years, the dread summons to represent the most vital and interesting currents in American art looms before the museum. Its curators do their stuff, and the result is nearly always the same: abuse from the art world and the fanged calumny of critics. "Every time I award a state commission," some 19th century French Minister of Culture was heard to sigh, "I create one ingrate and 20 malcontents...
Yesterday's lecture was the first of the Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture series, an annual or at least biennial lecture on United States foreign policy
...disburses a biennial budget of $1.7 billion on programs ranging from malaria inoculations to AIDS prevention. Nakajima, his critics charge, has run it in an autocratic manner, but Japan made his reappointment a matter of national pride and applied inordinate pressure to secure it. In May, Nakajima must still win approval, usually pro forma, from the organization's 168-nation assembly...
...sure, Los Angeles is no stranger to mass-market novelists, but that kind of pedestrian vulgarity is increasingly overwhelmed by the energy, quality and variety of the town's truly provocative attractions: a first-class symphony orchestra, lively art galleries and museums, adventurous theater, special events like the biennial L.A. Arts Festival, a good Mexican dinner for 10 bucks...
...Sacramento, Josephson recently had a captive audience. A 1990 state ethics-reform law, passed after the felony indictments of two California legislators, makes attendance at biennial ethics courses mandatory for all state legislators and their staff members. It is probably the first time that an entire legislature has been sent back to school. Typically, Josephson asked participants to enact real-life situations that involve moral dilemmas. A pet example: When a senator is invited to speak out of town, is it proper for the sponsoring group to pay for the air fare and hotel bills of his family? Josephson explains...