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The Venice Biennale, a leading showcase for avant-garde art, opened in mid-June.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
The Venice Biennale, a leading showcase for avant-garde art, opened in mid-June. It has been clear for years that contemporary art must soon reach the outermost bounds of silliness, so that artists will either have to find real jobs or return to painting landscapes and still lifes in oils. It is plain from the Biennale catalogue that this happy day is still some way off. At this year's event, Miyako Ishiuchi of Japan will be exhibiting 33 photographs of her late mother's personal possessions--lipsticks, chemises, and girdles, assorted false teeth and combs still clumped with hair. Iceland's Gabriela Fridriksdottir will be showing "a film of singer Bjork ... in which ...
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