Red pigeons … blue pigeons … pigeons that look more like Amazonian parakeets: the results of a controversial performance by Swiss artist Julian Charrière for the 13th architectural Biennale. Tourists fascinated. Animal defence activists indignant (http://www.ecoblog.it/post/
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Aerial political warfare
Applause as a plane flies over holidaymakers on the Adriatic Riviera trailing a banner that reads “Don’t come back, Silvio. Thank you”: a plea directed at Italy’s former (and future?) Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
The stunt was funded collectively by members of a Facebook group in response to a similar aerial banner commissioned the previous week by one of Berlusconi’s senators, that read “Come back Silvio” (See photos here: http://www.repubblica.it/