But if there are some lows in the programme, this Venice festival is always a reliably fertile mix of new and familiar names, of young and established work.
A fertile mix of 16th-century Spanish art and contemporary Chicano culture infuses his artwork and also some of his tattoos, like the portrait of the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl on his right bicep.
Often portrayed as an ideal spot for new immigrants, with its array of public services and advocacy groups and its fertile mix of ethnicities, the city may not necessarily have all that a newcomer needs to build a future.
She planted the melons in a fertile mix of potting soil, a little of her own compost, a couple of handfuls of calcified lime and a handful of what she calls Jeavons Mix.
But their heyday has been the 20th century, with its fertile mix of national-security scares, space-travel, assassinations and super-secret new science.The research for "Conspiracy" is diligent.
Latitude's fertile mix of different musics, different ways of telling stories through poetry, dance, literature as well as song, resonates with the fundamentals of Bow Down – but whether a festival audience are ready for a spot of gory sororicide, disembowelling and live burial, remains to be seen.
In Beyoglu, the hub of Istanbul's alternative art scene, street musicians are trading in their guitars for ouds (an oriental string instrument) and the ney (a flute traditionally played by dervishes).From this fertile mix, Mr Weiss has added three Turkish musicians to his mainly Arab al-Kindi ensemble.
Southern Serbia's rich mix of ethnic groups makes the region a fertile ground for separatists.
Regularly relying on happenstance, Pozoga and Kirkley worked with local musicians, anthropologists, oral historians, linguists, sign painters, and 3-D artists to create a fertile, evolving mix of sounds and images.
It is Stan and Diane who introduce blotter LSD into Laguna's already-fertile drug mix.
Fertile soil needs a mix of weathered rock fragments and decaying organic matter.
