It was widely interpreted as an attempt by President Hu Jintao to boost his own public standing by allowing open tributes to his still-popular namesake.
A wide-open tribute to the cosmopolitan tradition, the Biennale featured fine work in the Japanese pavilion, organized by Arata Isozaki, on the craving of young Japanese women for modern electronics and practical fashion.
Harris was in the middle of doing a zesty, if slightly generic, opening tribute number to why we love movies when Jack Black bounded up on stage to take over for one tellingly hilarious verse, in which he decried a movie industry ruled by box-office takings, global marketing, and films increasingly viewed on mobile devices.
Mr. Bernstein "kept it open in tribute to her," she added.
Point was the greatest French chef of his generation, and his widow had kept the restaurant open in tribute to what he had always referred to, modestly, as "ma gastronomie".
Mr. Hall said his desire to open a tribute to Run-DMC stretched back to the early 1980s when he first heard his friends performing "Sucker MCs" on the radio.
Opening ENDURO Alan Rosen, an owner of the Junior's restaurants, is opening this tribute to his grandfather and great-uncle, Harry and Mike Rosen, who owned Enduro restaurants in Manhattan and Brooklyn, one of which became the original Junior's, the cheesecake mecca.
And it opened the tribute to Mr. Cordero with a stately account of his "Canción Azul".
Bruno Mars opened the "tribute" by playing his new single, "Locked Out of Heaven," which has as much to do with Bob Marley as the Pope (who apparently didn't like the tribute either).
