Lala, The Artistic Chimp

One of the more entertaining artists at this year’s Venice Biennale is Lala, a 20-year-old chimpanzee. Not just any old ape, but a simian Sophia Loren, known for her “classic” Italian caper movie Bongo Bongo, and now the star of the biennale’s most bizarre happening, Spelling U-T-O-P-I-A. Her installation turns on assembling six-lettered dice to spell Utopia.”