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...reports to the State Department. "It's not so much that we're being taken advantage of," says Krens, "but every once in a while we'd like some consideration ... because it's a space we own and have in- vested in." He lobbied mightily for Matthew Barney, whose multimedia solo show at the New York Guggenheim this spring won lavish praise. But the State Department chose Fred Wilson, whose installation about Africans in Venice through the ages has been panned by the critics. One even suggested that the best reason to visit the U.S. pavilion was the air conditioning...
...contracts?aren't bothering to join, and although some of the shortfall is made up by Hong Kong Chinese, they have rather different expectations. A timeworn armchair and a three-month-old copy of Country Life doesn't cut it, not in a world of spas, martini bars and multimedia lounges...
NOTEBOOK: Hamas expands abroad; Chechnya goes from bad to worse; Bush's nuclear ambitions; Monica Lewinsky's ever enlarging multimedia empire...
...tours, but the degree of sophistication varies significantly. Northeastern simply offers a slide show of still photographs with explanatory text, while Duke allows users to position their cursors in a spot representing a location on campus and, using the arrow keys, see views from every direction. Other schools offer multimedia extravaganzas. The University of Miami has streaming video of classes in session, student testimonials and rousing orchestral background music...
...Hall of Opium uses a multimedia approach to trace the history of opium from highly valued ingredient in the pharmacopoeia of the ancients to the scourge of addiction that brought China to its knees in the 19th and 20th centuries. There is a re-creation of a British East India Company clipper ship's hold and its cargo of opium from India destined for the South China coast and a reproduction of a typical 19th century opium den, where a visitor can take himself through the opium smoker's paces (sans opium, of course). Patrons, according to this life-size...