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Whether it's a phone call for advice on the wine to go with your seafood brunch, on how to source that hard-to-find JJ Prüm 2005 Gold Kap, or how to transport wine safely (microchips embedded in the crates to regulate and monitor temperature, and track location, will help), Sarment's sommeliers provide round-the-clock service. They also spend eight weeks a year on the road to find new wines and forge relationships with reclusive Bordeaux winemakers...
...synthetic cloth, the first of their public "wrappings." And in a dozen commissions since, Kaldor has not only brought a who's who of contemporary art to Australia, from curator Harald Szeemann to video artist Nam June Paik, but amassed a seriously cool collection in the process. His newest KAP recruit is installation artist Urs Fischer, this year's Swiss representative at the Venice Biennale along with Ugo Rondinone, another KAP alumni. "He's got a passionate eye," says Engberg, director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. "He's very intuitive about what he likes...
...Meantime, Kaldor just keeps on giving. Already plans are shaping up for the Urs Fischer installation on Sydney's Cockatoo Island, the lucky 13th KAP, which launches on April 19. Will it be the Swiss artist's House of Bread, an alpine chalet constructed of sourdough and home to four hungry parakeets? In any case, Kaldor insists "it will be wonderful. It will be wonderful...
...Kids Against Pollution was started three years ago by a fifth-grade civics class at the Tenakill School in Closter, N.J., to urge a ban on polystyrene at the school. Since their victory, 800 chapters of the student group have sprung up in the U.S. and Europe. One of KAP's primary goals is to reform the biggest polystyrene user of all. In West Milford, N.J., Jennifer Brailey, 12, has persuaded her family and friends to boycott McDonald's stores, or at least refuse any food that is enclosed in polystyrene containers. She has helped organize letter-writing campaigns...
...wish people would put down these myths thatwe haze because we walk in lines and that wediscriminate because we are predominantly Black,"says Sean Cranston, an MIT student and vicepresident of KAP...