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Galleries around the world are falling for the Campanas' tropical charms. Their Vitoria Regia stools, named after the giant water lilies of the Amazon River, recently featured in the garden of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art is including the brothers in its "Space for Your Future" exhibition (Oct. 27 to Jan. 20, 2008). Favela chic seems to offer pointers for sustainable living. "It is our job to find beauty and meaning in the everyday," Humberto has said. The siblings wove wicker around cheap plastic seats to create larger, sculptural but still functional...
...That has become a familiar problem. Iñaki Añua, director of the Vitoria Jazz Festival in Spain's Basque Country (July 15-18), lost his sponsorship with Heineken after five years, and says he has to scramble to see what he can arrange for next. "I've heard the same thing from other festivals," he says. "We get a million people coming here for jazz, but the sponsors seem to be moving more and more to sports events." Whatever the logic of the sponsors, jazz remains a tiny but relatively healthy segment of a music industry...
...official meetings leading up to the Earth Summit, Brazil's representatives argued that the developing world cannot let environmental concerns get in the way of the need to find homes and jobs for its citizens. In February, 800 representatives of Brazilian environmental groups, universities and government agencies signed the Vitoria Declaration, which, among other things, states that the developed world is responsible for global warming and that "Third World countries have the right to increase their consumption of energy to attend to their development needs...
Every year the people of Vitoria, a Basque community in northern Spain, celebrate the fiestas of the Virgen Blanca, the city's patron saint. Last week the annual merrymaking was disrupted when about 1,000 youths who had been drinking at fiesta street bars began chanting slogans in support of the Basque terrorist organization ETA. The demonstration soon developed into a riot in which 48 people, including ten police, were injured and tens of thousands of dollars in damage was done to public buildings...
This month the bishops of the Basque cities of Bilbao, San Sebastián and Vitoria said as much in a pastoral letter that warned of the "coercive pressures" of the military on individual liberty. The three prelates condemned ETA's continuing terrorism, but they also cautioned that the military's new role in the Basque country could eventually pose a threat to democracy. "When the armed forces set themselves up as judge over the democratic process and feel tempted to intervene," they wrote, "this constitutes a serious danger rather than a genuine defense of the interests...