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...cafe-restaurant. LeRoy, who operates the city-owned Tavern on the Green in Central Park, offered to build the restaurant with $12 million of his own money. "That will help make the park a great, wonderful public gathering place," said LeRoy, "like the Via Veneto or the Piazza San Marco...
...events have conspired to keep Americans at home, while European and Asian tourists can feel at home abroad visiting Disney World's ersatz Eiffel Tower, Piazza San Marco and Japanese pagoda. Between March and September, U.S. amusement parks and theme attractions will have lured 235 million visitors through the turnstiles (average admission: $10) for a robust brand of professional patriotism. During the show at Florida Cypress Gardens, 30 miles from Disney World, a stunt man gliding high above the crowd effuses, "One thing I can see from here--or from any height--is that America sure is beautiful...
When Venetian troops ransacked Constantinople early in the 13th century, they brought home religious ornaments created by the world's finest craftsmen: goldsmiths, jewelers, wizards who worked in enamel. The Treasury of San Marco Venice (Abrams; 337 pages; $60) displays the loot, and poring over the glittering pictures is like wandering in a celestial gem shop. Among the glories here are a lyrical alabaster-and-pearl paten, which may have come from St. Sophia, and an opulent, dappled sardonyx chalice decorated with enamel figures that resemble mini-mosaics. There are treasuries or reliquaries in important churches all over Europe...
...wanted to discover the place I'm going to live in for the next four years," said Marco K. Malisani of Turin, Italy. Malisani got an early introduction to one of the area's most colorful political figures, 70-year old City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, at the Dante Aligheri Italian cultural center in East Cambridge...
Well, yes. It also happens that the world is full of formerly "site- specific" art, from the Elgin Marbles and the horses of San Marco to any number of detached frescoes and tombs that have not died from being moved. As the Great Structuralist in the Sky would put it, loss of context means enrichment by recontextualization, and site-specific is as site-specific does. What it does here is serve as a mere scrim for the question of Serra's rights as an artist who, much as his opponents may now resent it, can be argued to have...