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VENICE — Weeks before the art world flocked to this city of glistening canals and Palladian churches there was considerable speculation about what effects the economic crisis would have on the 53rd Biennale, the Olympiad of art events that opened to the public on Sunday.
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The Giardini, the shaded gardens that have been home to the Biennale for more than a century, along with the Arsenale, the former shipyards and rope factory where the Venetian fleets were once built, seemed noticeably less crowded during the four-day preview for the scores of collectors, museum directors, curators and auction-house executives who came to see and be seen. There were also fewer flashy parties, fewer celebrity sightings among the national pavilions and an absence of hit-you-over-the-head installations.