The Headline ANATOMY OF A PAVILION. The New York Times dug into the making of the forthcoming US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and found that its 37-year-old commissioner, Jenni Parido,  has no professional experience in the arts. She recently ran a luxury pet food store in Florida, setting her on an “unlikely path from selling venison nuggets and dried sardines to organizing a federally sponsored pavilion on a global stage,” according to the Times. Parido later picked Jeffrey Uslip, who made headlines a decade ago for a racially insensitive in St. Louis, to curate the pavilion. Artist Alma Allen ended up being named as the American representative, but not before others, including photographer William Eggleston and sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud, reportedly bailed out first. “I don’t think my work is political in respect to party politics,” Allen told the Times, later adding: “I think that people will have to make a judgment for themselves.” Related Articles PENDANT POPS UP. A memento mori pendant that appears in a celebrated 1635 English family portrait has been discovered, reports the Guardian. The John Souch painting, Sir Thomas Aston at the Deathbed of His Wife and held by the Manchester …