Croff heads Venice Biennale, after all - Artworld - Divide Croff, Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia - Brief Article

Art in America, April, 2004

After a negative, if nonbinding, vote by the culture committee of the Italian Senate had threatened to derail the appointment of Divide Croff as president of the newly established Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia [see "Front Page," Mar. '04], the way was cleared by a Feb. 11 vote of approval by the less politically polarized culture committee of the Camera, the second house of Italy's parliament.

The administrative uncertainty had delayed by several weeks the implementation of the decree transforming the Venice Biennale into a cultural foundation with an endowment and increased private-sector participation. As we went to press, Croft, a Venetian-born businessman and former chief of the Sanca Nazionale del Lavoro, launched the reorganization process by convening the new foundation's administrative council on Mar. 4.