Italian police shut down art installation, "The Mosque" at Venice Biennale
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Randy Kennedy
ITALY---The police in Venice closed an art installation in the form of a functioning mosque on Friday morning.... The Icelandic Art Center, which commissioned the installation, said in a statement that it believed the aims of the mosque had been realized, in a sense, even if the installation was not allowed to remain open, as originally planned, over the course of the Biennale through November. [link]
By Randy Kennedy
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| A prayer service inside the mosque installation created by the artist Christoph Büchel on May 8. Credit Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times |