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...Italian contemporary art critic and curator Achille Bonito Oliva has long considered Toscani an important artist, and provided him with two large salas at the 1993 Venice Biennele which he presided over. "The function of art is to puncture the collective disinterest," says Bonito Oliva. "Toscani has turned on its head American pop art's optimistic idea of consumerism...
...Leaving the photographer's studio, another TIME interview of a communicator-cum-artist comes to mind. In the 1965 documentary Don't Look Back, we see Bob Dylan confronting a TIME reporter, saying the magazine has "too much to lose by printing the truth." When the reporter asks what is "the truth," the young Dylan snaps back: "A plain picture. Of, let's say, a tramp vomiting into the sewer. And next to the picture is Mr. Rockfeller, or C.W. Jones on the the subway going to work." Oliviero Toscani actually sees such photographic contrasts in TIME, circa 2007, though...
...eight children. "I'm used to having crowds around me with everyone shouting at the top of their voices," she says. Her father, a textile merchant, died when she was a child; her widowed mother took over the family business before embarking on a successful career as an artist. (Chan's apartment is decorated with her mother's ink-brush paintings, and some of her mother's steely resolve seems to have rubbed off too.) Although she trained to become a social worker, Chan joined the government as an élite administrative cadet and enjoyed a 39-year career, marred...
...than older ones, with last-borns getting immunized sometimes at only half the rate of firstborns. Eldest siblings are also disproportionately represented in high-paying professions. Younger siblings, by contrast, are looser cannons, less educated and less strapping, perhaps, but statistically likelier to live the exhilarating life of an artist or a comedian, an adventurer, entrepreneur, GI or firefighter. And middle children? Well, they can be a puzzle-even to researchers...
...rode around on my own eight person bicycle to my own music, and I’m in a castle, and I’m not on drugs.” While the crowd had dwindled by then, those who remained seized the opportunity to mingle with the artist. Spektor enthusiastically took photographs with students, signed autographs, and even spoke on students’ cell phones to their friends. “It was really cool to have a personal and kind of strange encounter with Regina at the door,” said Olivia G. Volkoff...