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Human rights are not an abstract notion to Wang Dan. He risked death when he stood up for them in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and then spent 43 months in prison for his leadership role in the pro-democracy movement. Undaunted and unrepentant, the student activist was released last year. Two weeks ago, the police were back: they picked him up, questioned him for 24 hours and told him to get out of Beijing. Wang ignored them, and last week he was hauled in again. Police warned him that his political activities were antisocialist and illegal...
Through Dec. "Shades of Significance: Tonal Values in Abstract Art: From its origins in Cubism, through its dominance of the post-war American art scene, to its current coexistence with other approaches to imagemaking...
This may seem rather abstract, but it is the essential reason that a society as incredibly diverse as ours can hold together despite the natural tendencies of humans to hate and fear those who are different. American ideals, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the Constitution, are the glue that keeps us together and allows us to form a common culture in which all can be included, a culture that has indeed been forming for hundreds of years, long before the cries of "diversity" and "ethnocentrism" began to emanate from the universities...
...Crossing or the dizzy Raising Arizona) they are brilliant satirists of the national propensity for violence. But here they have deliberately cut themselves off from their best subject. Try as they will to create a vision of corporate (and urban) hellishness through sheer stylishness, theirs is a truly abstract expressionism, at once heavy, lifeless...
Through Dec. "Shades of Significance: Tonal Values in Abstract Art.: From its perceive origins in Cubism, through its dominance of the post-war American art scene, to its current coexistence with other approaches to imagemaking...