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...actress Cate Blanchett upstaging her compatriot artist Ricky Swallow in the Australian pavilion; rather than Killing Time, the name of his meticulously carved still-life centerpiece, it was more like paparazzi time. But this year, under the helm of Robert Storr, former curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the serious appraisal of art should win out. And for Australian artists, there's the best chance yet of a coveted Golden Lion or best-pavilion prize...
...curatorial advisor for Venice. He also happens to be just about the best-connected Australian in the art scene. Scroll through the membership of New York MoMA's International Council, and there are Kaldor and his partner, the Melbourne fashion-chain head Naomi Milgrom. At London's Tate Modern, the pair are listed just below Sir Elton John and David Furnish. "I didn't realize," says the softly spoken, Hungarian-accented Kaldor, 70, "but it is funny...
...been overhauling some species’ genetic compositions—far more substantially than the dinky addition of a gene or two—since the beginning of civilization. Every year, farmers select the most bountiful individual plants and animals and breed their offspring to produce the next generation. Modern grain and livestock species look nothing like their ancestors from 10,000 years...
...Harvard, we are so immersed in the immense modern world that we seldom get the opportunity to truly pretend we’re living in the 1940s, chatting about the Lend-Lease Act, before all this “green campus” propaganda kicked into gear. Perhaps it’s time Harvard started relentlessly exploiting its long, gilded past...
...handed our heaters over to whomever came," says Hruby, summing up the Czechs' encounters with the armed forces that passed through his country during the wars of modern history. "We should rather plant potatoes than radars...