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Jan Egeland's "Ten Lessons
from Ten Peace Processes"
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Campo Santo
Stefano, San Marco, 2842
11 am
Learn "ten hard-won lessons" from mediator, diplomat, and
activist Jan Egeland, who was involved in both the Oslo Accords in 1993 and
the Guetemala Peace Accords in 1996. Egeland will propose that despite context,
certain applicable lessons have arisen from every peace effort. All he is
saying is give peace a chance. This lecture is part
of the Norwegian pavilion's "State of Things" lecture series.

Gladstone Gallery Hosts Drinks
for Allora & Calzadilla
Terrazza Danielli, Castello, 4196
1 pm
One of the more peculiar features of the Venice Biennale's preview week is the stream of special soirees hosted by commercial galleries, touting their artists's Biennale participation and looking to leverage it. And no honor is more leveragable than being the U.S's official selection, so it's no
surprise that Allora & Calzadilla's New York gallery, Gladstone, is hosting drinks for the multimedia duo for a select crowd of art-world insiders.

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Opening of "Glasstress"
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Campo Santo
Stefano, San Marco, 2842
6 pm-8 pm
This so-called Glass Biennale calls upon major contemporary artists, including Vik
Muniz and Doug and Mike Starn, to create sculptures and installations made
completely of glass. By also including objects made by designers, the exhibit
aims to shatter our understanding of modernism and the avant-garde notion of
"art for art's sake." "Glasstress" opens to the general public on June 4.

Launch of ArtSway's New
Forest Pavilion
Palazzo Zenobio, Fondamenta Del
Soccorso, Dorsoduro 2596
6 pm-10 pm
This collateral event hosted by
innovative English gallery ArtSway features installation, performance,
video, and painting by artists Gayle
Chong Kwan, Dave Lewis, Hew Locke, Mike Marshall, Christopher Orr, and Sophy
Rickett. The launch event is open to the public.

Opening Reception and Catalogue
Launch for "Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson: Under Deconstruction"
Palazzo Zenobio, Collegio Armeno
Moorat Raphael, Fondamenta del
Soccorso, 2596, Dorsoduro
10 pm-12 am
The Icelandic Ministry of
Education, Science and Culture and the Icelandic Art
Center promise a wild
party for the opening of "Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson: Under
Deconstruction," an exhibition of four new works by the Spanish-Icelandic team.
Video and sound works addressing the duo's desire to "subvert traditional power
relations" and to "reinvent reality anew" will be served up with drinks at an
exhibition curated by Ellen Blumenstein.

"IllumiNATIONS"
Giardini & Arsenale
Preview: June 1-3, 10 am-6 pm
The center of the action for many of the art lovers assembled for the
preview weekend, the Bice Curiger-curated "IllumiNATIONS" brings
together some 82 international artists, spread out across the Arsenale's
long and sweeping spaces and the International Pavilion in the
Giardini. Curiger promises a grand statement about the enduring power of
the Enlightenment grounded in the works of Venetian master Tintoretto,
and the successes and failures of her show will be the week's central
narrative. 

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