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...Artist Yi Zhou's latest sculpture has all the trappings of a Cold War - era secret, so she's appropriately mum about the details of its creation. What she will say is that it took help from NASA scientists to shape her medium, a translucent substance called aerogel, into a likeness of a human heart. For the Shanghai-born artist, the absorbent material - used aboard NASA's Stardust probe to trap dust from comet tails - represented a new artistic frontier. Cajoling some from the space agency took years. "I had to show them I was serious," she says...
...shuttles often to Hong Kong, producing work that typically melds classical European influences with a minimalist aesthetic. But despite the impression given by her Italian accent - and works like a series of animated shorts inspired by the chapters of Dante's Divine Comedy - she considers herself "completely a Chinese artist...
...will be hard to top the aerogel heart, but Zhou has a few exciting projects lined up, including a short film featuring Charlie's Angels actress Lucy Liu ("It's her first time working with an artist," Zhou says with some pride) and a fountain that she's making out of a Ferrari. Presumably the car was easier to come by than a supply of space...
...degree in public policy at Stanford, then won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where she earned a doctorate in political science. Settling in western Massachusetts, she worked as an activist for prisoners with HIV and AIDS, and as a "yard boy." That's how she met Susan Mikula, an artist who has been her partner for the past eight years. On a dare, Maddow auditioned as an on-air personality for an Amherst radio station and got the job. She served as morning host on Northampton's WRSI for two years until the Air America start-up in March...
...have the strength we had during the Reagan days. Back then no one wanted to mess with us. We diminished that strength through the Clinton days. We've got to get that strength back, where everyone says, "Don't mess with America, man." It's like [being] a martial artist. You walk down the street and it's like, "Don't mess with him, man. He'll kick your head...