Word: artiste
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...TONY ALBERT, 27, artist After dinner at Kafe Meze, tel: (61-7) 3844 1720, I'd go to the Lychee Lounge, tel: (61-7) 3846 0544. It's a dimly lit, moody place. After that, I might go nearby to the Rumpus Room, tel: (61-7) 3846 1323, which is a great place to just chill out. Occasionally late at night I'll go to one of the nightclubs in Fortitude Valley - probably to Family, tel: (61-7) 3852 5000, which is a very high-energy nightclub on McLachlan Street...
...redwood's trunk are writhing ancestral figures - slave, virginal taupou and high chief - and carved at canopy height are the words SAMOA MUAMUA LEATUA, God first in Samoa. Soaring above American Samoa's national museum and gallery, the sculpture - titled From Agony to Ecstasy - is the brainchild of local artist Tile Tuala. Scurrying around it on this warm winter's morning are the half-dozen assistants from other island nations whom the artist has enlisted to help with the finishing touches of his sculpture. "We love to work together with all the artists of the South Pacific," says Tuala...
...Pacific Arts in Pago Pago during July and August. More than any other event, this festival (held every four years; the next will be in Honiara, Solomon Islands) has helped shape the region as an arc of creativity. "It's a positive thing," says Samoan - New Zealand hip-hop artist King Kapisi, "to have Pacific island communities meet up at one place and say, Listen, we're still here and giving respect to our heritage. Once you lose your culture, you don't know where you come from...
Argentine artist Pérez Celis moved comfortably through many media, producing innovative sculptures, paintings and murals and even recently illustrating a Spanish translation of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. While he exhibited his work around the globe and lived abroad for many years, his devotion was ultimately to his homeland and his favorite sports team. Two of Celis' colorful murals adorn the walls at the Buenos Aires stadium of his beloved Boca Juniors soccer team. He died of leukemia...
...OCTOPUS Philadelphia-based artist Adam Wallacavage has a thing for tentacles. "I redid an old town house, and the theme of my dining room was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," he says. His new chandeliers are equally devoted to marine life - not just giant squid and octopuses, but also smaller sea creatures and an imaginary one: the six-legged hexapus ($6,000-$18,000). www.adamwallacavage.com...