Way beyond baroque

The double-columned entrance to Beyond Baroque, the 39-year-0ld writers' center in Venice, has been nobly led these past few years by Fred Dewey, the great-grandson of the great philospher/educator John Dewey.

Way beyond baroque is the latest civic adornment, given to the people of Venice by Robert Graham, who began his career making columns (click on Robert Graham, then on Works of Art) on top of which he then placed nudes.

The Venice de Milo is eccentrically placed at the edge of a roundabout directly inland, on Windward, from di Suvero's "Voxal 2000," shown in yesterday's post.
Meanwhile, Graham and his wife, Anjelica Huston, will soon move into this place closer to the beach on Windward, actually about halfway to the di Suvero.