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...representative nine years later. All the same, the choice of a dead artist denies the important Biennale spotlight to a living one. Before and after his death, but especially after, Gonzalez-Torres' work was widely circulated around the museum world. But it was a brief life, a relatively small output, and it's been seen quite a bit. So there's no sense of surprise or discovery in this show, a big part of what makes any other pavilion exciting. (Assuming it's exciting at all.) Inevitably, the Gonzalez-Torres show feels sealed off and commemorative...
George W. Bush's visit to Europe this week has focused on the countries that once fell under the veil of communism and that have also, not coincidentally, proved important allies in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush's brief visit to Poland on Friday was his third as President...
...Olivier Dahan, has given her story a sumptuous production - with the look of an old-fashioned Hollywood musical sob story - as well as a maddeningly fragmented structure. For reasons best known to Dahan, he is always cutting from Piaf (played by Marion Cotillard) at the height of her relatively brief life (she was discovered in 1935 and died, at age 47, in 1963) to this or that aspect of her dismal past - her desertion by her mad mother, the years she spent in her grandmother's brothel (no, she was never a working girl, though that seems...
LONG CAREER, BRIEF DEANSHIP...
...that we voted on,” Professor of German Peter J. Burgard said at the May 15 meeting, adding that the Faculty knew of Skocpol’s report “from The New York Times last week” and “from our very brief discussion last year...