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ollection of Cubist, Surrealist, and European abstract painting and sculpture at the Venice Biennale, she purchases the Palazzo Venter dei Leoni on Venice's Grand Canal, installs her collection there, and opens it to the public. She establishes the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation to operate and endow the

nd Reba), commission Frank Lloyd Wright to design a permanent structure to house the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Over the next fifteen years, Wright will make some 700 sketches, and six separate sets of working drawings, for the building. The Foundation acquires a tract of land between East Eight

- tanks, airplanes, national wealth - declined or rose as a gradual process. It took years for Genoa to fund and build an expeditionary force to gut Venice’s Adriatic designs. Decades passed as Germany built her naval fleet. But in our age, such slower-moving measures are of limited use. Network systems

that slower unconnected era must be 29 “We got to know the nature of calculating”: Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty ed. G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H.von Wright Translated by Denis Paul and G.E.M.Anscombe, (Oxford: Blackwell 1969) 30 “For Crosby”: Virginia Woolf, The Years, (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovan

t Obama on the occasion of the 56th Inaugural Ceremony. Mr. Ma and his wife have two children. He plays two instruments, a 1733 Montagnana cello from Venice and the 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius. For additional information, see: www.yo-yoma. com, www.silkroadproject.org, and www.opus3artists.com. HOUSE_OVE

ent company Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts. In April 2009, he left Electronic Arts to run “Stupid Fun Club”, an entertainment think tank in which Wright and EA are principal shareholders. The first computer game Wright designed was Raid on Bungeling Bay in 1984, but it was SimCity that brought him to

thought artificial intelligence was going to be.” In 1986, he met Jeff Braun, an investor interested in entering the computer game industry, at what Wright calls “the world’s most important pizza party.” Together they formed Maxis the next year in Orinda, California. SimCity (1989) was a hit and has been