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...this end, Greive and his Creative New Zealand team-mates have concocted a Key Influencer strategy. This has identified the world's top 200 taste-makers bound for Venice and letter-bombed them with an introductory note from the artists of et al. "This is not a religious or philosophical organization," their manifesto-like leaflet reads. "However, this information has already prompted many individuals to devote their entire energy to the transitional process?" Following up on the ground, et al.'s commissioner Greg Burke has been traveling the world's art capitals. "This morning in L.A. I had breakfast with...
...June 9. While the New Zealanders promise "music from London; films by Len Lye," Australia is offering a more restrained reception at the seriously elegant Hotel Cipriani. The parties reflect the different approaches the two countries are taking to promote their artists this year: for the controversial collective called et al., New Zealand is going loud; with slacker-generation sculptor Ricky Swallow, "it's a much more subtle kind of approach," says Karilyn Brown, head of audience and market development at the Aus-tralia Council, which funds the show...
...which a decent spinster finally stumbles into a mature, equitable relationship with the local policeman. But Hare is after much more: the composite portrait of middle-class England, a community in which an affable exterior hides sexual crimes behind the privet hedge. The casting coup of Redgrave mčre et fille pays handsome dividends: Vanessa, ever luminous, her face a substructure of sinew and stress waiting to implode, and Joely, with much of her mother's beauty and most of her shy mannerisms in embryo. They bring body and soul to a tantalizing entertainment...
...society issued honorary degrees—fake diplomas written in pidgin Latin—to notable contemporaries, such as the prince of Haiti, a pair of Siamese twins known as Cheng and Heng, a sea serpent rumored to frequent Massachusetts Bay in 1830 (awarded “M.D. et peculiariter M.U.D. Med. Fac. Hon”), and Tsar Alexander I—long before either the Hasty Pudding named a man of the year or the Lampoon inducted an honorary member...
...spark a debate. Michel, a 45-year-old Parisian teacher and avid film buff, takes in up to three movies a week and prefers the kind of challenging art-house fare that can be enjoyed as much during the discussion afterward as in the theater. She had chosen Polissons et Galipettes, a compilation of vintage French blue movies. Art or pornography? That's a question neither Michel nor her boyfriend had the opportunity to discuss that August evening in 2002 because Michel, who suffers from brittle-bone disease and gets around in a wheelchair, was barred by a cinema employee...