Taking Venice – 5

A disjointed melange of mostly still photos for a documentary that purported a big story–scandal at the Venice Biennale–that never showed up. What was Leo Castelli’s involvement? Who was Rauschenberg’s competition? Wasn’t he the “best painter” there? What did his later ventures–e.g., ROCI–have to do with anything? Why talking heads who arrived on the scene more than 40 years later, including a young art historian from Tokyo? It was fun to see Rauschenberg’s works, often over and over, but I missed discussion of their artistic merit, or the art of the other impressive American representatives. I felt continually short-changed.