Word: artfully
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...entire package was edited by editor-at-large Richard Lacayo, who also headed up last year's Making of America issue on Mark Twain. Deputy chief of reporters Andrea Dorfman and interns Rebecca Kaplan and Eric Dodds immersed themselves in F.D.R.'s career. Associate art director Andrée Kahlmorgan designed the package, artist Lon Tweeten produced the WW II graphic, and picture editor Deirdre Read tracked down the photographs that bring the past to life. Let unconquerable gladness dwell...
This helps explain why his cartwheeling midcareer retrospective, which just opened at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, is called "Yinka Shonibare MBE." The show, which originated last year in Sydney and moves on in November to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, presents us with the work--sculpture, paintings, staged photographs and two short films--of a man who is both a consummate product of colonial empire and a shrewd decoder of its false assumptions...
...country's handicrafts are produced in the small factories that dot rural Russia. In Sergiyev Posad, the historic home of the nesting doll, many people still paint dolls in their living rooms and kitchens. While the government says it aims to save a traditional Russian art form, the artisans who still do the work in the most traditional way may be the ones who suffer most: they won't see a ruble of the government's stimulus package, which is directed only at large-scale factories. (Read "In Russia, a Recession-Plagued Town Revolts...
...eight years now, the New York Asian Film Festival has earned "Wow"s and "Huh?"s from Manhattan audiences with its savory mix of action and art-house works from the continent that produces more movies than any other. In its scope and vigor, this is the New York film festival, and it's run not by a heavily subsidized arts institution but by a few knowledgeable guys from Brooklyn who want to share their enthusiasms with the fanboys of the tristate area. The playlist has grown from 11 features in 2002 to more than 50 this time, and includes...
...From the world's most populous Muslim country comes a mordant, confounding thriller about an unsuccessful artist who becomes an art-world sensation after his wife convinces him to build a sculpture around her aborted fetus. Suddenly he's besieged with commissions - but where to find more dead babies? As slick as it is sick, the movie could be Anwar's calling card for international employment, if only Hollywood moguls wanted something out of their own narrow range. The Forbidden Door is one more NYAFF example of what movies could be but rarely dare...