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...snow. Gusong uses an unusual subtractive technique. After applying black ink to paper, he pulls out selected fibers, leaving the underlying white paper behind. Chen Qikuan’s playful “Monkeys” depicts four monkeys and a parent in curving strokes of black ink. From afar, I mistook it for a Chinese character. Qikuan, who studied calligraphy as a child, forms his visual pun with an ordinary subject and traditional, pithy strokes. This extension of tradition pushes the bounds of modernism, and museums often grapple with categorizing the art. “What an exhibition like...
...government to hold fake press conferences and broadcast live to a Virtual News Network (VNN), a closed-circuit satellite TV network modeled after CNN. Only people involved in the exercise can watch VNN or access its web site. The real media are only allowed to watch from afar...
...effective action, preventive or corrective. Darfur is only one of many places where such action is needed but very little is done. Here's hoping Burma does not become another case. But if the situation does "evolve," then the monks had best be prepared to be watched - admiringly, from afar. Peter Cole, Condé-st.-Libiaire, France...
...come two new books about India, also written in English and from afar: one by an Indian publisher living in Canada, the other by an ethnic Indian born and raised in East Africa and also living in Canada. Interestingly, both books examine the themes of extremism and sectarian violence - curses that continue to scar India and detract from the many great gains the country has made economically in the past decade...
...Still, if there hasn't been sweeping progress, there has been -for better and for worse - a lot of action. Beijing has sunk millions of dollars into the effort to stop the advance of the desert and has set up a system of laws to manage the land from afar; herders are being relocated and it's now forbidden to graze on badly hit areas. The slow process of regrowth has started in limited areas, and the sand storms hitting Beijing have been less severe in the last few years. Though some scientists chalk uo the latter to fluctuations...