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...underside of rocks, on cave walls damp with waterfall spray under tree roots, in abandoned cars in Telephone booths and even in traffic lights, the Africans have killed birds chickens dogs, pigs, horses and four people. Four months ago, a resident of Caieiras, near São Paulo, tried to burn an African beehive stuck in a chimney of a local bar. In a "buzzing mass that darkened the sun," one reported, that the Africans swarmed into the bar stung a traveling wine salesman senseless, left so many stingers in the bald dome of the bartender that he "thought...
...tempers, the marauding Africans have Brazilians frantically searching for an antidote. But so far, the only suggested solution is genocide. "Destroy them all says Father Nedel. "If they are not Controlled, they will take over all the other bees and they will take over Brazil. Says São Paulo Beekeeper Luiz Zovaro who keeps African bees, but has had to raise the price of honey from 39? to almost $2 a jar because it is so difficult to extract honeycombs from their hives: "If they are not stopped Brazil will no longer be safe. I am very discouraged about...
...could not wait until the U.S. entries (delayed by dock strikes) were uncrated. The U.S. entrants, a rather pallid and particular group of seven "cool" hard-and soft-edge abstractionists, were conceded to be out of the race anyway, since Americans won both the last São Paulo and Venice biennials. The Grande Prémio (a gold medal, shorn by poverty of its usual cash bonus) was split between Italy's Alberto Burri and France's Victor Vasarely...
...student. But, as a grand poppa of op art, he and a group to which his son Yvaral belongs have pioneered the complete opposite of a concern for surface texture with high-key colors and razor-cut patterns that baffle the eye. Significantly in terms of São Paulo, two of his son's Paris-based Groupe are South Americans with whom Vasarely has great popularity...
...awards at a county fair were hardly satisfied. Rio's O Globo labeled Burri's latest "the mere decorative futility of burnt holes in transparent plastic." Correio da Manha simply called the prizes "a scandal." Surely exaggerated, but the overall impact of the São Paulo Bienal was like that of most conventions-fatigue and confusion...