US DAT Executes Empire, 51st Venice Biennale

US Department of Art & Technology
Washington, DC

Office of the Press Secretary, [email protected]
For Immediate Release: June 16, 2005

US DAT EXECUTES EMPIRE
WITH RECLAMATION OF AMERICAN PAVILION
http://www.usdat.us/secretary

VENICE - The US Department of Art & Technology announces the
execution of "Empire Runs Its Course," completed this week at the
51st Venice Biennale. Visit the Department Website to view the
remains: http://www.usdat.us/secretary

Visitors at the Biennale were surprised to find only the columns and
pediment remaining from the former American Pavilion. According to
Secretary-at-Large Randall M. Packer, "the Department has carried out
the wishes of the Pavilion's founder, Walter L. Clark, who expressed
in 1930 at the first opening: 'if the United States government ever
creates a Department of Art, the building will be turned over to the
supervision of such a governmental department.' Now that we have
executed "Empire Runs its Course" and reclaimed the American
Pavilion, we have completed the first phase of our important task to
transform it as the "Virtual Pavilion."

For more information, follow the Situational Tour of the 51st Venice
Biennale, reportage from the aesthetic edge:

http://www.usdat.us/secretary

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