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Snipes & Snarls. Exactly what angered Venetian students about the Biennale has not so far been clearly explained. Three months ago, they occupied the studios at the Academy of Fine Arts and the School of Architecture, began demanding a boycott of the Biennale on the grounds that it was a "capitalist" institution. Early this month, demonstrators in Milan occupied the Triennale building, housing a 13-nation exhibit of architecture and design. Though they were evicted by police, the event apparently unnerved the Venice Biennale's steering committee so much that it "postponed" the opening of two major historical exhibits...
...stop that practice, every major racing state now requires that no trace of Butazolidin remain in a horse's system on the day of a race. Kentucky was the last state to pass such a law; it did so in 1962, two years after a long shot named Venetian Way, who was practically hooked on bute, scored an upset victory in the Derby...
...would try to restore the city's historic sections to their original appearance. The job has taken a long time. But the rebuilders have been cheered by the knowledge that their most valuable assistant is an artist who waited even longer for recognition. He is Bernardo Bellotto, a Venetian vedutista, or landscape painter, whose views of 18th century Warsaw are the most perfect record of the city to survive the war. And though Bellotto lived from 1720 to 1780, it was only this summer at a major exhibition of vedutisti in Venice that the Italian public at long last...
Crystalline Visions. Bellotto learned his trade in his uncle's Venetian studio. Canaletto was then one of the most illustrious and successful artists in Europe, leader of the school whose detailed panoramas of Venetian fiestas and parades hung in castles and mansions from Italy to England. In his youth,Bel-lotto aped his uncle's style and signed his canvases "Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto," a quirk that has caused confusion among collectors ever since. But as he matured, he developed a colder, moodier, darker technique...
...season's gaudiest Ballo in Maschera (masked ball), and more than 500 of the plumiest knights and dames of the international round table had donned their most expensive armor to dance, taste champagne, guess each other's identities and incidentally raise money for the Venetian artisans still suffering the effects of last November's widespread floods. When the masks came off at 1:30 a.m., the revelers turned out to include: Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, Aristotle Onassis, Gian Carlo Menotti, Paul Getty, Princess Alexandra of Greece, three Princesses Ruspoli, Rose Kennedy, Clare Boothe Luce, Sonny...