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...least some in the Diana industry think it will get a boost this year from more than the anniversary of the car crash in a Paris tunnel. After years of delays, the inquest into her death is starting up in London - and the press finally will have something new to say. "The real interest now is the story of the conspiracy," says Peter Hill, editor of London newspaper the Daily Express. "There's an enormous number of people who simply do not believe that [Diana's death] was just an accident." For whatever reason - nostalgia, loyalty, morbid curiosity - readers...
...international group show that is a centerpiece of the fair. This is the first Biennale ever headed by an American, Robert Storr, a former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and dean of the School of Art at Yale University. "Biennales are a crash course in contemporary art," he says. "They're a place where the general public at a relatively low cost can come and find out what's going on in the world...
...unusual but not unprecedented for a nation to be represented at the Biennale by an artist who's no longer living. Robert Smithson, who died in a plane crash in 1973, was the U.S. 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...
...Poland, former Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, once a strong supporter of close ties with America, recently denounced the missile defense initiative, writing, "If the Bush administration expects Poles and Czechs to jump for joy and agree to whatever is proposed, it's going to face a mighty crash with reality. The administration might have gotten away with this five years ago, when the memory of Ronald Reagan's steadfast support for our freedom fighters had just been bolstered by American advocacy of NATO enlarge... But the war in Iraq has dented Central European trust." Many Poles are also upset...
...spared), her time as a street singer, her rise to drug and drink addled international fame, her inevitable decline and early death from cancer. Considerable attention is paid to the great love of her life, Marcel Cerdan (Jean-Pierre Martins), the middleweight boxing champion, who died in airplane crash at the height of his fame and their love affair...