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Somebody who can do it and then some is Renzo Piano, the Italian architect whose refined new addition to the Art Institute opened over the weekend to large crowds and a big outdoor party. The $294 million Modern Wing, built to house the Institute's great collection of 20th and 21st century work, is a complicated exercise in reconciliation. A resolutely modern building, it not only manages to gently introduce itself into the greenery of Chicago's Millennium Park but also draws in three tricky neighbors - the original Art Institute, the active commuter railway lines that run between them...
Home from Home? Re "How to Do Seminyak" [April 27]: Why would a tourist travel to Bali to have dinner in an Italian restaurant, brunch at a place with Australian-inspired cuisine, dinner in a Japanese restaurant, breakfast with Italian coffee and panini, tea with scones, clotted cream and jam, and in the evening tapas and papas bravas? It seems that the writer has no interest in finding out that Indonesian food also exists and is very, very good. Jaime Alcántara, LLÍBER, SPAIN...
...Advise the Travel Adviser Why would a tourist travel to bali to have dinner in an Italian restaurant, brunch at a place with Australian cuisine, another dinner in a Japanese restaurant, breakfast with Italian coffee and a panini, tea with scones, and finally tapas and papas bravas [April 27]. It seems that the author does not want to know that Indonesian or Balinese food also exists and is very, very good. Jaime Alcántara, Lliber, Spain
...What's happening today behind a front of bodily curves and female beauty is grave.' VERONICA LARIO, wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, publicly criticizing her husband for filling his Cabinet with beautiful women and using them as "pieces of costume jewelry" to attract votes. She later announced plans to divorce...
...years in business with a 30-for-30 offer. The outfit is taking $300 off the price of 30 different tours, including a nine-day hike through Ecuador's Andean Highlands along the Hacienda Trail ($3,598 per person); a seven-day gastronomic tour of medieval towns along the Italian Riviera ($3,648 per person); or a 10-day expedition through terraced fields, valleys and forests with views of the snow-capped Himalayas in Bhutan ($4,998 per person...