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...work will be displayed in high-profile public venues including the National Museum of Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum, as well as at 2902. In keeping with the festival's democratic mission, there will also be plenty of opportunities for photographers and the general public to connect, including talks, workshops and portfolio reviews led by figures such as Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss, founders of Houston's International Photography Biennial (popularly known as FotoFest). At satellite programs like View Finders, volunteers will hand cameras to people on the street and ask them to take pictures of their environment...
...spectacular Dushanbe teahouse in Boulder, Colorado. The only Central Asian teahouse in the Western Hemisphere and a gift from our impoverished sister city, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, it is exquisitely decorated with hand-carved and hand-painted ceilings, tables, stools and interior wood columns. It is an extraordinary work of art that never fails to enhance the experience of sipping the world's finest teas. George Peknik, Boulder, Colorado...
...Business of Art "He's given no evidence up to now that he knows what to do with a brush ..." Thank you, Richard Lacayo, for the excellent article on Damien Hirst and his factory "art" [Sept. 15]. More than $7o0,000 for "spin paintings" manufactured by an army of assistants? Lacayo's term "product lines on canvas" says it all. Oddly, however closely I look at the photo of Hirst's new work The Golden Calf, I can't quite see the heap of gold-plated manure beneath the pickled bull. Kevin Wooldridge, London...
...find it sickening that a man who has made a "career" out of killing animals, preserving their remains and calling it art is receiving so much attention from the media. This self-obsessed man confesses that his work is all "a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas." His work is not art, and we should not be worshiping a man whose only motivation seems to be to getting attention and money by provoking controversy. Mat Beckwith, Villars, Switzerland
...inexorably toward global conflict, Shanghai opened its doors to the world's refugees - Russians fleeing the Bolsheviks, Jews escaping the Nazis, even Chinese communists dodging warlords - and threw one helluva party. The festive mood survives to this day, as the city in September celebrated the opening of three major art fairs, one of which, ShContemporary, showcased not only top contemporary Chinese artists, but also emerging talents from 26 different countries. ShContemporary ranks as Asia's first international art fair, and the fact that it takes place in Shanghai is no coincidence. Shanghai may be in China, but its ambitions have...