“There’s real potential for something interesting here”

"About half of the 500 invited artists did not attend, including Bono from the rock band U2. But the meeting still seemed a public relations success in light of the fierce controversies that have made this papacy less than loved by the downtown art scene, and made that art scene unbeloved by a pope who decries nihilism and relativism at every turn.
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The crowd, which came from around the world but largely from Italy, included the architects Zaha Hadid and Daniel Liebeskind, the composers Ennio Morricone and Arvo Part, the artists Anish Kapoor and Jannis Kounellis, and the Italian film directors Nanni Moretti and Matteo Garrone."