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...Brit awards, the biggest night in the British music industry, differ from the Grammys in one big way: they are unashamedly patriotic. There are two sets of awards, one for British artists and one for international artists, i.e. everyone else. Which means that while a British singer like Winehouse can sweep the boards at the Grammys, you'll never see an American artist taking home more Brit awards than the British nominees: there are twice as many British-only prizes as international ones. But this isn't about Britain protecting its own; it's about celebrating the specific strengths...
...twofer for the Foo Fighters, also, who picked up gongs for Best International Group and Best International Album for Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, beating out bands like Arcade Fire and Eagles. The award for British Female Solo Artist went to witty singer-songwriter Kate Nash, while Kylie was crowned best International Female Solo Artist, reminding a nation that has so fully embraced her as one of its own that she is, in fact, Australian. International Male Solo artist went to Kanye West, who's riff on humility - "it doesn't feel natural, but I hear it works...
...Taring Padi's artists have been asked to hold an exhibition at the National Gallery in Jakarta and to show alongside the paintings of the great Indonesian artist Sudjojono at a retrospective of his work in Singapore in May. The World Bank has commissioned them to produce works for poverty-alleviation and anticorruption campaigns starting later this year. The group is even making hesitant steps in the direction of merchandizing, setting up a shop near its old squat (they used to live in a derelict building on the campus of Yogyakarta's Indonesian Institute of the Arts, known after...
...Gone are the days when the inner workings of automata were hidden to preserve the magic; the cogs, cams, pulleys and levers at "Fantastical Mechanisms" are all part of the show. American artist Norman Tuck offers practical but surprising demonstrations of scientific principles. In Double Helix, for example, two motor-driven copper spirals twine gently within each other until the moment they touch and reverse the motor. The machines of Russian sculptor Eduard Bersudsky, by contrast, are better read as manifestations of the troubled artist's state of mind. Now living in Glasgow, where his works are shown...
...what does eating potato chips have to do with our larger, more important life decisions? Consider the choice to marry one sweetheart over another. If you pick the genial, down-to-earth banker, will you forever regret letting go of that free-spirited artist who loves traveling as much as you? Probably not. The very fact that you'll be living with - and experiencing - one spouse and not the other means that the passed-over option will quickly fade in your mind. "The people you don't marry don't move in with you," says Gilbert...