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Protesters helped topple President Lucio Gutierrez last week, the third time street rage has booted the national government since 1997. He is trying to leave the country for Brazil, which granted him asylum...
...play’s action transpires on a spartan, black brick stage. Marrinan and Chen have dressed the set walls and ceiling with chicken wire—giving the stage the effect of a bomb shelter or asylum. A small television set, broadcasting static, sits at the front right of the stage, and a small table and serving tray, at the stage’s rear left, comprise all of the play’s major props...
...easily avoidable fiasco began with the inexplicable decision by two Border Patrol officers that Medvid had not been seeking asylum and should be returned to his ship. The agents did not speak Ukrainian, so they telephoned a translator in New York, who interviewed the nervous sailor while one agent listened. The interpreter, Irene Padoch, insisted that Medvid had made it clear that he was seeking asylum "to live in an honest country" and that she told this to the agents. Nonetheless, they signed an order that Medvid be returned to his ship...
...back, and Hollywood's got it. Rambo muscles his way into Viet Nam and gets to win this time. Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwarzenegger make every infidel bleed red, white and blue. And now, Mikhail Baryshnikov stars in a parable about a ballet star who eight years ago sought asylum in the West only to plunge into a refugee's nightmare: his plane crash-lands in Siberia, and he's back in the U.S.S.R. Once again, the good guys wear white, the bad guys...
...they have widened in scope. In recent years, they've become great swathes of blue across which his themes of exile and emancipation play out. While appealing to corporate collections - "that's how you make influence," notes curator Binghui - he hasn't shied away from hot-button issues like asylum seekers. "There was a moment when he was a Chinese artist living in Australia, then he became a Chinese-Australian artist, and now he's an Australian artist," says dealer Sherman. At Guan Wei's most recent show last year, Cate Blanchett became a collector. "She spent hours, hours, talking...