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...than standing armies." So wrote Thomas Jefferson to a friend in 1816. Now Michael Moore, whose Fahrenheit 9/11 took on the U.S. Army, and the entire military-executive-industrial establishment, brings his latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, to the Venice Film Festival. The land of Macchiavelli and the Medici is the perfect setting for Moore's nonfiction tragicomedy of greed and chicanery on Wall Street, in Washington, D.C., and through the entire economic apparatus. The movie will have its world premiere here tonight, before playing the Toronto Film Festival next week, opening Sept. 23 in New York...
...anarchic to allow anyone to tell us what do for long (they all failed, from Caesar Augustus to Benito Mussolini). Berlusconi has won three elections, lost two, and democracy is alive and (almost) well. Italy is like a postmodern signoria - think the Sforza in Milan, the Medici in Florence - led by a benevolent elder well-liked by his subjects...
...people during the French Revolution, asserting the power of the masses by, in the name of knowledge, seizing all of the private collections of the First and Second Estates. What has been considered the first public library, the library of San Marco, founded by Cosimo de’ Medici in 1444, was created as power publicity, as a means of instituting the Medici’s dominance in Florence. Even the Library of Alexandria was not born out of benevolence. Ptolemy Soter starved out Athens until it relinquished its knowledge to his desires to build the greatest library ever...
...York Philharmonic (NYP) concert last February at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre - a recording of which has just been released on DVD by Medici Arts - began with a welcome from a comely young North Korean woman in traditional dress. She expressed the hope that the performance would "herald the first step in rapprochement between the two countries," just before the esteemed orchestra entered the stately 2,500-seat auditorium...
...Italian government got a truckload of evidence when its national police force raided the warehouse of Giacomo Medici, finding records of the pieces he had acquired from looters. The government sued Medici and fellow art dealer Robert Hecht for trafficking in stolen antiquities, and 10 years later, Marion True, a curator at the Getty Museum, was charged with being a co-conspirator. As the Getty Museum’s curator of antiquities since 1986, True allegedly purchased tens of millions of dollars’ worth of Greek and Etruscan artifacts from Hecht and Medici...