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...Italian contemporary art critic and curator Achille Bonito Oliva has long considered Toscani an important artist, and provided him with two large salas at the 1993 Venice Biennele which he presided over. "The function of art is to puncture the collective disinterest," says Bonito Oliva. "Toscani has turned on its head American pop art's optimistic idea of consumerism...
...digital world. In mid-February, with little mainstream fanfare, Nike partnered with Google to launch joga.com a global social-networking site for soccer fans that mimics MySpace.com the networking juggernaut that Rupert Murdoch recently purchased for $580 million. The most innovative aspect of Nike's broad Joga Bonito (Portuguese for Play Beautiful) World Cup marketing campaign, joga.com has about 800,000 members from Chile, Afghanistan, Malaysia, New Zealand--you name it. The company says it adds a new member every eight seconds...
...STARTED AS a shoemaker's apprentice at age 11, and by 13, Salvatore Ferragamo had his own shop, selling shoes to the locals in Bonito, Italy. The 11th of 14 children, Ferragamo had always dreamed of creating the perfect shoe. He traveled to Boston, where he joined his brother working at a footwear company, before hitting Hollywood in the 1920s and opening the Hollywood Boot Shop. There his cowboy boots and Roman sandals were often used on movie sets, and soon celebrities came calling for custom orders. But it wasn't until 1936, when the use of leather and steel...
...July before a gathering of European transport ministers, features works along the No. 1 line by Greece's Jannis Kounellis, Britain's David Tremlett and Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto. The brand-new Materdei station sports a brightly colored sculpture by Luigi Serafini and a Sandro Chia mosaic. Achille Bonito Oliva, the project's curator, calls it the world's first "obligatory museum" - if you ride the No. 1 line, you can't miss it. Still, city officials are perhaps proudest of the brushstrokes that have not shown up. Barely a trace of graffiti or vandalism has been registered since...
...space, carrying lacquered trays of fanciful sushi combinations no Japanese diner would recognize. The sushi chefs, young Japanese expats, add to the din by shouting orders in unison. A Hispanic chef creates the hot entrées - like soba risotto in smoked-trout butter under a mountain of shaved bonito flakes. "You see," says Moore proudly, "it's nothing like those places in midtown...