Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates
Aug 22 2005
Alexander, Ashot share lead
By A Correspondent
ABU DHABI – The grandmasters were engrossed in complex middle game
battles during the sixth round pairings of the Abu Dhabi Chess
Festival at the Khalidya Palace Hotel here on Saturday.
Grandmaster Anastasian Ashot of Armenia came up with a cautious
approach in French defence to earn a half point against Kobalia
Mikhail on the top board. The Russian Mikhail played a great game to
gain a valuable half point from his more experienced opponent in the
37th.
Potkin Alexander also drew with Bocharov Dmitry in 21 moves from a
Nimzo-Indian defence. Grandmaster Goloshchapov Alexander of Ukraine
defeated Grandmaster Chernyshov Konstantin of Russia and joined Ashot
in the lead with five points in the Masters section.
Grandmasters Mamedyarov Shakhriyar of Azerbaijan, Fedorov Alexei and
Aleksandrov Aleksej of Byelorussia, Bocharov Dmitry, Potkin Vladimir
and Kobalia Mikhail are trailing the leaders by half a point each.
Goloshchapov played a marathon game lasting 73 moves against
Chernyshov Konstantin in a modern defence.
Among the UAE players, Salim Ghuloom held Grandmaster Moradiabadi
Elshan of Iran to a draw. Fide master Salim A.R. Saleh defeated his
teammate Ibrahim Ismail while Marwan Abdul Wahab drew his game
against Coleman James of England.
In the children’s section, Dhruv Hingorani of India and Bajarani Ulvi
of Azerbaijan are at the top of the table with five points at the end
of the fifth round. Rahimli Sanan of Azerbaijan, Mohammed Hamza Abdul
Karim of UAE, Khalaji Hanyeh, RostamiZadeh Reza, Javadi Fatemeh, Azad
Bakhsh Farshid and Vakili Pour Arian of Iran are sharing the second
spot with four points apiece.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

The New Anatolian, Turkey
Aug 22 2005
Turkey eyes Azerbaijani-Armenian top meetings for opening to Armenia
ANKARA – The Turkish government is awaiting the results of upcoming
high-level Azerbaijani-Armenian talks for its plans for a diplomatic
opening to Armenia.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Robert
Kocharian will meet next week, during a summit of the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS). As a prelude to the meeting Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Armenian Foreign Minister
Vartan Oskanian will hold talks in Moscow on Tuesday.
Diplomatic sources said that the Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders are
expected to break the deadlock on Nagorno-Karabakh and progress on a
plan that foresees Armenian withdrawal from at least five of its
seven occupied regions, and recognition of Karabakh’s future status
through a referandum within 15 years.
Turkish officials say that they’re considering reopening the border
with Armenia, if and when Yerevan commits to such a pullout from
Nagorno-Karabakh.
Mammadyarov stated that if Yerevan and Baku come to agreement at the
foreign ministerial level on Tuesday then “the presidents will be
able to give instructions on beginning the work based on the received
information.”
Oskanian also said, “I can’t say anything concrete; the negotiations
will show everything. Whether we’ll be able to conduct negotiations
on this basis or not will be seen during the meetings,” reported the
Armenian media.
Hopes for a solution on Karabakh have risen especially after the
Minsk Group of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) had talks with those involved in July. “We’ve never been
closer to an agreement,” Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz
Azimov was quoted as saying after the talks.
Armenia’s occupation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region has been one of
the greatest obstacles for normalization of relations between Turkey
and Armenia. Though the Armenian government has recently signaled
they’re ready to drop the so-called “genocide” allegations from
official foreign policy, special relations between Turkey and
Azerbaijan have prevented the Turkish government from opening the
border before a solution is found on Nagorno-Karabakh.
Almost 20 percent of Azerbaijani territories have been Armenian
occupation. yerevan does not recognise Turkey’s and Azerbaijan’s
national borders.

Baku Today, Azerbaijan
Aug 22 2005
Azeri Soldier Kept in Jail in Yerevan
Ramil Ilyas oglu Hudaverdiyev, an Azerbaijani soldier, detained in
the beginning of August, is kept in a Yerevan jail, the State
Commission on work with the Prisoners of War (POWs), hostages and
lost people in Azerbaijan told Trend.
His health and the maintenance conditions are satisfactory. The
Yerevan office of the International Red Cross Committee (IRCC), as
well as the Armenian authorities, informed about captivation of
Hudaverdiyev. He was given a right to visit and register in the IRCC.
The State Commission appreciates this step of the Armenian side, said
the same source.
On 16-17 August the Commission informed Hudaverdiyev’s relatives
about his son health condition.
The State Commission continues taking measures to release
Hudaverdiyev from the prison, according to the Commission.

Journal of Turkish Weekly
Aug 22 2005
Iran Makes Aid to Armenia
Kemal DURANCAN (JTW)
ANKARA – Iran Islamic Republic makes grants to two Christian
countries of the region, Armenia and Georgia. Armenia has occupied
almost 20 percent of Azerbaijan for more than a decade. Iran has a
strong Azerbaijani minority. It is argued that almost 40 percent of
Iranian population is Azerbaijani. Dr. Yesim Sahiner says `Iranian
foreign policy is not Islamic or Islamist, but pragmatist. I can see
no difference between Shah’s Caucasian policy and Islamic Republic’s
Caucasian policies.’ `If Iran’s foreign policy is Islamic, it should
support Muslim Azerbaijan instead of Christian Armenia. Iran grants
half million dollars as the US does. What is the difference between
Iran and the US in Caucasus’ Sahiner added.
Sahiner argued that Armenia is an aggressive state and has attacked
its neighbors. `Armenia occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijani
territories. It has irredentist aims on Georgian territories. Yerevan
further does not recognise Turkey’s and Azerbaijan’s national
borders. Many Armenian terrorists who killed more than 40 Turkish
diplomats during the 1970s and 1980s are free in Armenia. Armenia
even makes aid to the terrorists. The European Union many other
international organizations publicly declared that Armenia was an
occupier in Karabakh and in many Azerbaijani towns. However the
United States can make economic aid to such an occupier country, and
now the Iran Islamic Republic grants a lot of sources. No one can
defend itself by using ideological words here’.
IRAN GRANTS TO 10 STATES
Iranian Cabinet on Sunday approved payment of a 10-million-dollar
grant to seven states upon a proposal of the foreign ministry.
According to Public Relations Department of Ministry of Economy and
Finance, the grant will be provided from development credit fund.
Based on the cabinet’s approval, Iran will grant 2.5 million dollars
to Tajikistan, 2 million dollars to Iraq, 1.5 million dollars to
Niger, 1.5 million dollars to Guinea, 1.5 million dollars to Mali,
0.5 million dollars to Armenia and 0.5 million dollars to Georgia.
Iran has very good relations with Armenia. Many projects on oil, gas,
transportation and electricity are agreed between Tehran and Yerevan
while Tehran-Baku relations are not as good as that. Turkey has
developed close relations with Georgia and Azerbaijan and urged
Armenia to withdraw from occupied territories and join the Caucasian
integration attempts. Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan will finish the
Baku – Tbilisi – Ceyhan Pipeline Project in 2004 and three states
will establish a more integrated transportation system in the region.
Turkish officials say Ankara wish to see Armenia and Iran in regional
integration projects. There is another gas pipeline between Turkey
and Iran and Turkey buys almost 1 billion dollars Iranian gas every
year.

The Messenger, Georgia
Aug 22 2005
Meetings in Crimea, grumbling in Russia
By Christina Tashkevich
Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko,
Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, Polish President Aleksander
Kwasniewski,
and President Mikheil Saakashvili
Despite the little information and no official agreements
from an informal meeting of the presidents of Georgia,
Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland on Friday to discuss
the initiative of a new regional coalition, Russian political
commentators quickly labeled their meeting in Crimea
as an anti-Russian step.
The presidents gathered on Thursday, August 18, for the celebration
of the 80th anniversary of the children’s camp Artek. Donning
neckerchiefs and casual clothes, the presidents dined at the camp’s
canteen and played games with children. On Friday, they met at
Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko’s Crimea residence for informal
talks.
On Thursday Yushchenko met with the presidents of Poland and
Lithuania and held a group meeting when President Saakashvili arrived
later in the day. Topics discussed included the creation of a new
regional alliance and the situation in Belarus.
Last Friday Saakashvili and Yushchenko announced their intention to
create an alliance uniting democracies of Baltic, Black and Caspian
Sea countries called the Community of Democratic Choice.
Saakashvili, who returned to Georgia early Saturday, has yet to
comment on the meeting and left soon after arriving in Georgia to
meet with Armenian President Robert Kocharaian at Lake Sevan.
According to leading Russian political scientists the meeting of the
leaders in Crimea was a demonstration that Presidents Saakashvili and
Yushchenko are following a pro-Western policy and wish to separate
from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
The director of private Institute of CIS Countries, Konstantin
Zatulin, told Interfax Friday, “They want to be liked by the West and
demonstrate first of all to Russia that they left the borders of the
CIS.”
“Their goal is to receive [money] transfers from the U.S.A. and EU
to use them in the interests of
asserting power and personal enrichment”
He stated that Russia should not make any concessions to these
countries in the future such as speeding up the process of the
withdrawal of Russian bases from Georgia.
The president of ‘Politics’ foundation Viacheslav Nikonov agreed that
the meeting in Crimea was a step of Georgia and Ukraine in founding
an anti-Russian coalition. “Such an alliance can lead to the
isolation of Russia from its largest trade partner – the EU,” he told
Interfax.
The Director of Russian Institute of Political Studies Sergey Markov
believes that the United States will be more interested in the
‘Democratic Choice’ project than Western Europe.
“Their goal is to receive [money] transfers from the U.S.A. and EU to
use them in the interests of asserting power and personal
enrichment,” he told Russian media.
A column in Kommersant by Natalia Gevorkian was critical of Russia
for making others fear it. “President Putin was able to achieve his
‘high goal’ – people are scared of Russia. But it is not fear of a
dangerous and strong adversary. It is fear of a weak and inferiority
complex overridden,” she writes, adding:
“The new politicians in neighboring countries do not want to lie
under Moscow anymore. They want to change the situation. Moscow still
would have to sell its natural resources, but its market might shrink
if the neighbors, and Europe as well, have more choices. All roads to
the West would lead through this corridor, which was discussed in the
Artek summit.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Boris Tarasiuk commented on Thursday that
this new alliance would not be, however, an “alternative for the CIS”
and is currently only a concept.
However, Tarasiuk is not surprised that CIS countries have tried to
find other organizations during the last 14 years as the
effectiveness of CIS was low. “Not Ukraine and Georgia caused the
crisis within CIS, but the inability to respond to key issues which
concern the CIS countries,” he said at a briefing in Kiev.
After Presidents Saakashvili and Yushchenko announced the alliance
idea in the Borjomi Declaration on Friday, August 12, President of
Lithuania Valdas Adamkus was the first to respond and welcomed the
creation of a coalition of Baltic-Black Sea region countries.
In a statement on his official web site Adamkus addressed Saakashvili
and Yushchenko saying, “Cooperation of countries of the region has a
large prospects.”
He said the initiative would be “a strong stimulus to demolishing
separating lines in this region, settle out-of-date conflicts, block
the way to violations of human rights and open opportunities to new
era of democracy, safety, stability and long-term peace.”
The president of Lithuania hoped that the leaders of other Baltic
states would support the initiative as well.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Civil Georgia, Georgia
Aug 22 2005
Saakashvili Visits Armenia
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili arrived in Armenia on August
21 for a two day informal visit to hold talks with his Armenian
counterpart Robert Kocharian, Georgian and Armenian media sources
reported.

Saakashvili is reportedly accompanied by Georgian Defense Minister
Irakli Okruashvili.
The Armenian President paid an informal visit to Georgia in April and
held talks with Saakashvili in Georgia’s ski resort Gudauri.

AzerTag, Azerbaijan
Aug 22 2005
PACE PRESIDENT RENE VAN DER LINDEN’S OFFICIAL VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN
[August 22, 2005, 12:25:37]
René van der Linden, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE), is arrives for an official visit to
Azerbaijan on August 21.
Mr. Linden has answered the AzerTAj’s correspondent question at
Heydar Aliyev International Airport. He said `the South Caucasus is
one of most important regions for the Council of Europe. Process
occurring here are constantly in the center ogf attention of PACE. It
is my duty as president of PACE to learn all process in the region.
In this connection I visited Armenia and Georgia, and it’s now I’m in
Azerbaijan. I would like to hold some meetings, to discuss the
parliamentary elections, the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict’s settlement, and to get familiarize with Azerbaijani
officials position for these questions. Now is good opportunity for
settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and
we shall use it and to reach the problem’s solution.
The guest has answered questions by other journalists.
Mr. Linden was welcomed at the Airport by the first vice-speaker of
the Milli Majlis (Azerbaijani Parliament) Arif Rahimzade, other
officials.

The Messenger, Georgia
Aug 22 2005
PACE President reminds Georgia of CoE duties
Official also praises direction of reform and calls on Georgia to
take greater role in regional conflicts
By Nino Kopaleishvili
Rene van der Linden
Georgia should fulfill the commitments it took before the Council of
Europe while becoming a member state, announced the President of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Rene van der
Linden at a press conference in the Parliament of Georgia on Sunday,
August 21.
Linden stressed that the Georgian government should pay more
attention to the 2005 recommendations of the Council of Europe and
the Venice Commission.
However, he also underlined “the great progress” Georgia has made
since the Rose Revolution, stating that the country is going in the
right direction.
“You have a strong position, a strong developed civil society and
independent media,” he stated.
Nonetheless, he urged the Georgian government to “speed up the
process” of implementing the recommendations and obligations to the
COE. He also urged the Georgian Parliament to accelerate the
ratification of EU conventions.
In a resolution adopted in January 2005, PACE gave Georgia deadlines
of September this year to sign and ratify the European Charter for
Regional and Minority Languages and the European Outline Convention
on Transfrontier Co-operation between Territorial Communities or
Authorities, and to ratify the European Social Charter and the
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.
Also by September the government is expected to adopt a legal
framework for restitution of ownership or compensation for property
lost during the conflicts of the early 1990s. The CoE’s Venice
Commission has also called on Georgia to revise the constitutional
structure of regional governance and the autonomy of Adjara.
The PACE president also talked about Georgia resolving “regional
conflicts.” He highlighted Georgia’s chances to support peace in the
South Caucasus region and to play “an outstanding role between
Armenia and Azerbaijan” on solving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
“Georgia must become an example for the whole region,” he stated.
Linden, who was elected to office last January to replace Peter
Schieder, visited Armenia before coming to Georgia and left for
Azerbaijan on August 21. This is the first visit of Linden to all
three South Caucasus countries.
During his visit to Georgia from August 20 to 21, Linden met with
Prime Minister of Georgia Zurab Noghaideli, Deputy Speaker of
Parliament Mikheil Machavariani, Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II,
representatives of opposition parties and NGOs.
“Georgia must become an example for the whole region” – Rene van der
Linden
Declaring that civil society is quite strong in Georgia, Linden
called on the opposition to establish more cooperation with each
other.
“He said we should seek strength and a reliable partnership with each
other,” confirmed Republican MP Levan Berdzenishvili after
a meeting with the PACE president.
As Linden stated, the main thing the COE is concerned with in Georgia
is the independence of the judiciary and election committees.
At Sunday’s meeting, the opposition parties also raised the issue of
interim elections and asked for COE’s monitoring.
“We mainly raised the issue of interim elections on October 1 and
asked the president of the Parliamentary Assembly to intensify
monitoring during the election campaign as well as on the day of
voting. And we received consent from the side of the commission that
such monitoring will be there from their side,” said Conservative MP
Zviad Dzidziguri.
Linden stated later at the press conference that the COE does not
implement monitoring of interim elections, but he still stressed the
importance to hold transparent interim elections.
Linden also commented on the 7 percent threshold in the parliamentary
proportional elections admitting that “it is too high,” although he
added the lower threshold “would not change the situation.”
“So I appeal to the opposition parties to use the opportunity to
cooperate together,” he stated. “But, of course, we expect that the
threshold will be diminished.”
According to Republican MP Levan Berdzenishvili during the meeting
with opposition parties, the issue of media independence,
self-governance issues and Georgia’s pace to EU integration process
were discussed. Berdzenishvili also commented that besides talk of
“negative trends” that have emerged in Georgia, both sides positively
evaluated indicators of economic progress and education reforms.
“I hope that the Council of Europe will manage to get the Georgian
government on the right track to democracy and… recommendations of
the Venice Commission and legislative initiatives will be really
looked through,” stated Berdzenishvili.
Talking to journalists on August 20 after meeting the president of
PACE Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli stressed that it is important
for the Georgian government to fulfill EU recommendations.
Commenting on the law on self-governance and whether the Mayor should
be elected directly or indirectly, a subject which became an issue of
hot debates in recent months in Georgia, Linden stated that “the COE
will never interfere in the choice of member states.” Coming from the
Netherlands Linden stated that all mayors in his country are elected
by the government, however, he admitted that he himself is “in favor
of a directly elected mayor.”

The Messenger, Georgia
Aug 22 2005
President Saakashvili on unofficial visit to Armenia
President Mikheil Saakashvili left for Armenia on Sunday for an
unofficial visit. According to the press service of the State
Chancellery of Georgia, the president will hold an unofficial meeting
with Armenian President Robert Kocharian at the presidential
residence near Lake Sevan.
Two presidents plan to discuss prospects to deepen of mutual
relations and settlement of the problems in South Caucasus, Prime
News reports.
The agency states that there is unofficial information that minister
of defence Irakli Okruashvili is visiting Armenia as well but the
ministry’s press service has denied those reports. The president of
Georgia will return Monday.

Kathimerini, Greece
Aug 22 2005
Dynamic, global art projects
Founder of Art for the World, international curator Adelina von
Furstenberg expands the scope of art
A Liliana Moro work in `Woman, Women.’
By Alexandra Koroxenidis – Kathimerini English Edition
Mobility is one of those words that describes the contemporary art
world. It is not just that many artists often move between different
countries, but also that exhibitions and art events are taking place
all over the world, sometimes touring different parts of the world.
The art world is constantly `on the move’ – not necessarily in a
geographical sense but in how new ideas, art fairs, events and
exhibitions are constantly generated and multiplying all over the
world. This `movement’ has made art more accessible, more flexible,
more varied but perhaps more mass-oriented.
Adelina von Furstenberg, an international and renowned curator, was
one of the field’s pioneers in broadening the scope of art. An
Armenian born in Istanbul, she was one of the first curators who
showed an interest in non-European artists, thus opening the way for
a multicultural approach in art that grew into a trend in the early
1990s. She was also a curator who took a more global and flexible
approach to contemporary art exhibitions. Her objective, it seems,
was to create a new context for visual art and make it a more
vigorous part of our lives, create a more vivid dialogue for it with
other arts, and relate it more to worldwide social issues. She
essentially wanted to make art pertinent to our lives.
Art for the World, the foundation she established about a decade ago,
says, by its name alone, much about her goals. The Geneva-based
foundation (there are also offices in Milan and Brussels) is a
non-government organization (NGO) associated with the United Nations’
department of public information. The foundation organizes
exhibitions on issues related to the declaration of human rights,
including the environment, health, children and poverty.
Art for the World has partners, collaborating institutions, in
several countries, with India and Brazil among the strongest.
Although Greece is not yet an official partner, von Furstenberg is
close to the country. She discovered Hydra 30 years ago and has been
spending every summer on the island since then. In Hydra, she came up
with the idea for her foundation, and she makes many of her contacts
with Greek curators and artists on the island. Von Furstenberg also
follows Greek contemporary art. In `Woman, Women,’ an alternating,
four-stop exhibition organized by Art for the World, she has included
Dimitris Antonitsis for the show’s second stop at Palazzo Strozzi in
Florence in early October and Maria Papadimitriou for the next
showing in Brussels.
Many of the works originate from the Dakis Joannou collection –
including art by Yinka Shonibare and Katerina Fritch – and the
permanent collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art.
`Woman, Women’ began in Geneva and will then move to Florence to mark
the anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Declaration on women’s rights.
After that, it will go to Brussels on March 8, concluding in Brazil.
The content of the exhibition will vary from city to city. Typical of
an Art for the World project, it creates a new context for art
outside the standard museum venue. In Brussels, for example, it
expands throughout the city with public, multidisciplinary projects.
Moreover, as is the case with most of von Furstenberg’s projects, the
approach is global. This worldview emerged after she was invited to
organize an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the United
Nations.
Von Furstenberg – the former founder and director of the Geneva
Contemporary Art Center – then decided to leave both of her
directorships, of The Magasin, the National Center of Contemporary
Art in Grenoble, France, and The Magasin’s school of curators.
`We had worked with artists from all over the world. Chen Zen and
Nari Ward were some among 60 in total,’ von Furstenberg told
Kathimerini English Edition. `After than it was impossible to go back
to everyday museum life.’
Since then, von Furstenberg has worked with artists from all over the
world. But how does a curator foreign to a country locate the most
interesting artists there? Is it possible to quickly gain an
insider’s point of view into the art of so many different countries?
To resolve that problem and expand the usual list of non-western (and
mostly expatriate) artists featured in most art exhibitions, von
Furstenberg follows an unusual route. Through the Art for the World,
she creates art for children in existing playgrounds or in
playgrounds she creates from scratch in various cities around the
world, including 10 in India. She invites local artists to design
them and, through that process, gets to know them.
`Besides the humanitarian aspect, we try to bring something to the
country and create a context which can enable us to take an insider’s
point of view into the local art scene,’ she said. `Going to Nigeria
to find a Nigerian artist is not always interesting, let alone
productive.’ Instead, she said, she `prefers to go Nigeria to build
playgrounds and art for children, and meet the artists in that way.’
But where is this multicultural approach leading the contemporary art
scene, especially now that it has regressed to a standard recipe in
contemporary art exhibitions? Von Furstenberg says narrowing in on a
more specialized perspective is what makes a difference.
`Nowadays everybody can make a global exhibition,’ she says. `It has
become almost a fashion, but the level of quality is not always
satisfactory. I think that what makes more sense nowadays is to take
one or three countries and really work deeply in addressing issues.’
Why take this global orientation in the first place? Once von
Furstenberg opened up to the non-Western contemporary art scene,
there was no looking back. This is partly because she found the work
of non-European artists had a certain exigency lacking in Western
art.
`When I started working in contemporary art, there was really a very
strong energy among artists,’ she said. `They believed that art could
change the world. Then gradually all of this transformed to a more
aesthetic approach. However, artists from India or South America, for
example, still believe that, because they are artists, they can
change the world. They are fighting for their art… This is what I
love so much. When an artist in India works on women’s issues, it is
not because of aesthetic reasons but because there is a problem. Of
course the result is art, it is not revolution. It is a work of art
because she is an artist, and she can only do art. She is not a
philosopher, activist, etc, but an artist who, in a certain,
non-aggressive world, works towards change.’
But she adds that the difference between Western and non-Western art
does not make the former any less interesting. Von Furstenberg
believes interesting art is everywhere.
If there is a problem with contemporary art, she says it lies with
the role of certain curators.
`I think the problem of art today does not come from museums,
collectors or artists but from curators,’ she said. `Most curators
are more than clever… They know how to move and approach
collectors, but do not help artists; they work for themselves. Of
course, there are great curators, too. But, in general, the result in
the past years has been very poor.’
For her part, von Furstenberg has come up with creative ways of
expanding the scope of art. A Yiannis Kounellis exhibition currently
showing at the botanical gardens of the privately-owned Borremeo
islands in northern Italy or a forthcoming exhibition on
Balkan-related videos by Marina Ambramovic gives a sense of the kind
of scope covered by Art for the World. But the objective is always
the same: striving to make art a more vital and vigorous part of our
daily lives and finding more challenging ways of examining our world.
Art for the World lives up to its name, offering art for everybody
and art as flexible, varied and lively as the real world.