In with the It crowd
ONE MIGHT IMAGINE THAT most people would be rather flattered to find themselves described as “the chosen ones”, but not so the “international aesthetes” who according to a French magazine are injecting new life into Venice.
Like all cosmopolitan cities, Venice can be extremely parochial (though not so bad as New York), and the latest article set off a chain of bitching at the Ai WeiWei opening on San Giorgio. The first social event of the first time the internationally revered artist has worked in glass, not nearly so engrossing as analysis of who was in or out on the latest It list.
