The other show, "Ahistoric Occasion," is a rambling, loose-jointed affair that doesn't quite jell but has some wonderful things in it, displaying the work of 11 artists whose presentations reinterpret bygone figures and events, often from a less-than-rosy point of view.
Just as, for Wiesel, biblical stories are not events of bygone times but paradigmatic tales of complex human beings navigating complex relationships, Talmudic masters are not disembodied rabbis debating obscurities but brilliant and flawed men struggling to make sense of God's will and God's world.
Survivors will die or move away, neighborhoods will sour, sensibilities will change and modern events will eclipse bygone ones.
The Russian Primary Chronicle (Povest vremennykh let; "Tale of Bygone Years")—a 12th-century account of events and life in the Kievan state enumerates seven Russian pagan divinities: Perun, Volos, Khors, Dazhbog, Stribog, Simargl, and Mokosh.
Berlin, however, seems to be stuck in the past, and not only because the event somewhat coasts on its bygone reputation as a festival of discovery.
"Let bygones be bygones," Dreier joked.
"Let bygones be bygones," he said.
And in a real insult to the speedy Web world, this 2006 event has happened well into spring 2007, honoring bygone achievements.
The oldest surviving arcade, built in 1800, it takes its name from two bygone towers that featured painted pictures of the city and historical events.
I nip in and out of events catching the vocabulary of what I thought was a bygone age.
