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	VENICE IN PICTURES, PART I Scenes from the 51st Venice Biennale.


		Fabrizio Plessi's 44-meter-tall Mare verticale (2000), installed at the entrance to the Giardini		Foreign correspondent Jonathan Napack in front of Berlin artist Annika Eriksson's Games Machine, a fully functioning pinball arcade		Monica Bonvicini's Minimal Romantik (2005) transforming a Minimalist cube into a bit of C.D. Friedrich landscape


		The U.S. pavilion in the Giardini		The Austrian pavilion, converted by artist Hans Schabus into The Last Land (2005), a towering hollow mountain of lumber and tarpaper		Andrea Blum's Gardens and Fountains (2005), an oasis of benches and water fountains in the Giardini


	Inside Hans Schabus' The Last Stand		The "control room" of Hans Schabus' The Last Stand		A map with some of the inspiration for Hans Schabus' The Last Stand		The view over Venice from the peak of Hans Schabus' The Last Stand


		Wang Qiheng's Fengshui Project for the Venice Biennale in the Chinese pavilion		Yung Ho Chang's Bamboo Shoots structure (including a bamboo folding chair) in the Chinese pavilion		A detail of Yung Ho Chang's Bamboo Shoots installation, with a ladder reaching to the top of a cherry tree


		Chinese farmer Du Wenda's flying saucers, appropriated for the Chinese pavilion by artist Peng Yu and Sun Yuan		A Model of the World (Quadrophony), featuring large steel ball bearings that people could kick around the floor, in the Czech pavilion, by artists Stano Filko, Jan Mančuška, Boris Ondreička and Marek Pokorný		Ricky Swallow's Killing Time (2003-04), a sculpture carved of laminated Malaysian rubberwood and maple (from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney) at the Australian pavilion


			In the Russian pavilion, the interactive photo installation Too Long to Escape (2005) by Valeriy Ayzenberg, Anton Litvin, Bogdan Mamonov and Liza Morozova		Each time a visitor passes through the door to the installation in the Russian pavilion, the four artists seem to advance a bit closer through the snow, until they fall to the ground with an explosive sound


		In the Swiss pavilion, Ingrid Wildi's Portrait Oblique (2005), a 11'45" digital video about her clinically depressed brother, Hans Rudolf Wildi		Still from Sharyar Nashat's The Regulating Line (2005) in the Swiss pavilion, a 3'40" video projection showing an acrobat's physical response to Rubens' cycle of paintings of Marie de Medici in the Louvre		In the Russian pavilion, Idiot Wind, an installation by Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov of several chambers filled with high-pressure air drafts


				In the Venezuelan pavilion, "Love, Warmth and Color of the Little Venice," a selection of works by Caracas-based graphic artist Santiago Pol (b. 1946)

Scenes from "The Experience of Art," organized by María de Corral at the Italian pavilion in the Giardini


			Movie clips of star actors playing put-upon dads, in Father (2005) by Candice Breitz		Movie clips of star actors playing put-upon moms, in Mother (2005) by Candice Breitz


		Durante o Caminho Vertical (2001), 28 floor-to-ceiling columns made from phone-book pages by Rio artist José Damasceno (b. 1968)		Willie Doherty's Non-Specific Threat, 2004, 7'46": "I am inside you. . . Your death is my salvation. . . There will be no oil. . . I am the face of evil. . . There will be no music"		Bruce Nauman's Shit in Your Hat -- Head on a Chair (1990), a 62' 25" video installation (from the collection of Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona)


		Rio artist Cildo Meireles' Serie Descala (2002)		Rachel Whiteread's sculpture, with digital photographs by Thomas Ruff, in the Italian pavilian's atrium space		Three paintings from 2003 by Agnes Martin, from left, Untitled #21, Homage to Life and The Sea


		Gore Vidal himself in a still from Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (2005) by Milanese artist Francesco Vezzoli (b. 1971)		Courtney Love in Francesco Vezzoli's Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula		Helen Mirren in Francesco Vezzoli's Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula


			Milla Jovovich in Francesco Vezzoli's Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula		The shocking lesbian kiss in Francesco Vezzoli's Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula