Remember Big Bambu? That whimsically haphazard, vaguely-architectural amalgamation of bamboo planks and shafts that last summer rose 50 feet from the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art? The same structure is now rising over the Grand Canal at the Venice Biennale.
One of the star exhibitions at the Met in 2010, "Big Bambu: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop," is now the Official Collateral Exhibition to the 54th Venice Biennale. Its 3,000 bamboo poles have arrived in Venice from New York by ship and are now going up in earnest. Carol Vogel of the New York Times visits the installation and other exhibitions now going on in Venice.
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