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...20th anniversary of Andy Warhol's death next year is creating buzz about the famously misunderstood artist, who uniquely grasped the function of celebrity and mass media in modern society and redefined the barrier between art and commerce. This month Phaidon Press publishes a 15-lb., 624-page visual biography, including 2,000 images, many rare or unpublished. In September PBS will air a documentary by Ric Burns anointing Warhol as the most significant artist of the second half of the 20th century and featuring previously unseen footage of Warhol in his studio in 1962. Also this fall Sienna Miller...
...this is softer, more rounded, more curved, more welcoming?" asks Robb, pointing to the lines of casings and walls. "A store design is about creating an intimacy or a connection. This is a more feminine design. The colors are warmer, shapes softer. The world was overly masculine in the 20th century, and it needs to be more balanced in the 21st...
...looked over my rather eclectic range of concentration courses, I was a tad concerned. I’ve dabbled in the philosophies of 19th century liberals and 20th century anarchists, traced cultural developments in Renaissance Italy and Nazi Germany, and studied the legal and economic challenges to public education and the ethical questions raised by biotechnology. Coherence? You’ve got to be kidding...
...challenge that the 20th-century philosopher of modern communication theory Marshall McLuhan would comprehend. The Canadian-born writer, who coined the phrase "the medium is the message," was also a devout Catholic. In one conversation recorded by his wife, McLuhan said: "Christ came to demonstrate God's love for man and to call all men to Him through himself as Mediator, as Medium. And in so doing he became the proclamation of his Church, the message of God to man. God's medium became God's message...
...shift of wealth and power to Asia is thus taking place, leading to an unprecedented situation in economic history. In the past, it was always the rich countries that financed economic development in emerging economies. European capital built canals and railroads in the 19th century U.S. economy; in the 20th century, European and American money bankrolled development in Latin America, Australia and Asia. But today, it's the poor countries?notably China?that are financing American consumption by purchasing U.S. government bonds. No wonder that with their vast liquidity, stock markets in many developing countries have vastly outperformed...