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...Then again, Truong is hardly a disinterested observer. Not only did he rank 20th on the VNExpress list (his stock is worth $35 million), but FPT is the parent company of the news site that published the list. And who is Vietnam's richest person, according to VNExpress? Truong's cousin, FPT Corp. CEO Truong Gia Binh, pictured, whose shares in the tech conglomerate are worth nearly $200 million. Call it the Vietnamese Dream...
...most kept for years in unopened boxes and cupboards), more than 130 photographs, and 35 paintings, like the watercolor Rain (2005), above. From cheeky doodles in pencil and pen and complex geometric shapes on matchbook covers, to black-and-white photographs of abandoned factories and digitally reworked 19th and 20th century nudes, a portrait emerges of a man fascinated by the emotional response to the physical world and the human form. The exhibit seems to have given Lynch a creative jolt as well (not that he needed one): "When I saw all this stuff again, I got inspired for some...
...culture that are more frequently overlooked.This weighty but rewarding collection of nineteen essays written over the last forty years is divided into three parts, each dealing with a different historical period. The first focuses on the antebellum years, the second on the Gilded Age, and the third on the 20th century. Trachtenberg covers a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on photography, urban studies, and literature. Trachtenberg views himself as the descendant of the historical critics of the 1920s who first used cultural criticism to examine photography and, in the process, created the field of American studies...
...Little wonder. The 138 paintings and drawings, most of them selected from some 300 of Filonov's works donated by his sister Yevdokiya Glebova to the Russian Museum in 1977, open a window into the disturbing and intriguing world of a mysterious 20th century genius...
...Born into a poor working-class Moscow family and trained as an artist in St. Petersburg, Filonov was part of the singular explosion of avant-garde art that blossomed in early 20th century Russia from the likes of Abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky, Supremacist Kasimir Malevich, Surrealist Marc Chagall and Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin. But Filonov never stayed with any school except his own, which he called "analytical art." It was in the eulogy to Filonov offered by the poet Alexei Kruchenykh, Futurism's major theoretician, that the exhibition's curators found their title, Witness of the Unseen...