Word: italianity
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...moving back to Europe, where on a whim she bought an unfinished Venetian palace, nicknamed Palazzo Nonfinito, she staged Pollock's first Italian show in 1950. By then Life magazine had already posed the question, "JACKSON POLLOCK: IS HE THE GREATEST LIVING PAINTER IN THE UNITED STATES?" But her life as a collector was not quite complete. From the '50s on, she moved past Pop and Minimalism to focus on the more quirky kinetic works of Germans Mack and Uecker, only now being properly appreciated. "The Zero Group works exemplify how Peggy was evergreen," Rylands says. "She continued buying...
...wait-as in a late-night steak-knife commercial, there's more. Equally impressive are the works of skater video artist Shaun Gladwell, epic landscape photographer Rosemary Laing and conceptualist Christian Capurro, all invited by Biennale director Robert Storr to show independently in the Italian pavilion and Arsenale. Capurro, in particular, stopped traffic with his intriguing project, Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, which had invited hundreds of people to erase the pages of a 1986 copy of Vogue Hommes, clocking up over 260 hours and turning the magazine (by Capurro's calculation) into an $A11,349.18 work...
...helped end last summer's 34-day war. "The mission has been, by and large, highly successful... because not only has it been the quietest time in the last 40 years maybe [along the Lebanon-Israel border] but what's more we have accomplished many points of 1701," the Italian general said, citing the near absence of cross-border violence...
...Garibaldi's legend stretched far beyond Italian shores. He had in fact begun his military career by leading independence movements in Brazil and Uruguay before returning home to lead battles to unify Italy. This "Hero of Two Worlds" would eventually become an international icon both during and after his lifetime, an archetype of the modern military folk hero who understood the link between his cult and his cause...
...with a concert in Staten Island, New York, and celebrations in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo and the Brazilian town of, well, Garibaldi. But in case anyone thought this was just dusty nostalgia, it turns out that the very face of 21st century youth is a fan of the Italian. "Garibaldi is my favorite hero," said Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter movies, in a recent Italian magazine interview. "In my final exam I wrote about Garibaldi and Italian unification. Actually, there was also the German (unification), but Italy's is much more heroic. What Garibaldi did was amazing...