Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Glass Garden: Of Bees, Glassblowers & Judi Harvest's "Denatured"

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Maestro Giorgio Giuman looks on while two of his sons work at Fornace Linea Arianna Artists always hope that their new shows will genera...
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

2,967℉ in the Shade: Murano Glass Artisan

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Venice is presently in the suffocating grip of a heat wave, but when I find myself thinking about how miserably hot it is at my desk I ...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Kings of Convenience at Teatro Verde, San Giorgio Maggiore

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A nearly full moon rises above Kings of Convenience at Teatro Verde on Tuesday, 23 July Based upon our concert-going experience of this ...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

7 Views of La Festa del Redentore

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To dine as these people are beside the water one must set one's table up in the morning There were over 120,000 spectators at this y...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013

All That Glitters: The Russian Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale

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Three would-be Danaë stoop to gather up gold coins in part of Vadim Zakharov's work at the 55th Venice Biennale I consider myself ve...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Teatro Marinoni Revisited, Part 2

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Green fiberglass roof panels cast a subaqueous light over the upper flights of Teatro Marinoni's stairwell Regardless of the impro...
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Saturday, July 13, 2013

"Venice Trembles": MOSE Corruption Arrests

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"Rigged contracts," the headline reads, "Mazzacurati Arrested: Venice Trembles" I ran into a Venetian architect fri...
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