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...spent a lifetime listening to the stories of her father, the distinguished artist Munggur-ruwuy, helping to translate the Bible into the local Gumatj language, and assisting brother Mandawuy, lead singer of the band Yothu Yindi, to organize the annual celebration of Yolngu culture, Garma, before picking up the brush just six years ago. What her father told her came spilling out in a painted universe of stars, gan'yumirri garak, and from next month her work will help guide international audiences through a new era of Aboriginal art at the Mus?e du quai Branly in Paris. Across...
...style not only dazzled the art market but also kept their sacred stories screened, in the process producing "masterpieces of ambiguity, equivocation and disguise," cultural theorist Paul Carter has written. By the mid-'90s, as the senior men began to pass away, their wives and daughters took up the brush, releasing a second wave of artists. Nearing 70, Ningura Napurrula's work bears the hallmarks of the latest style, with thick impasto not unlike ceremonial body painting. Across her first-floor ceiling in Paris, black and white forms cartwheel through space. Employing Napurrula's usual technique, artisans prepared a groundcover...
Hellman titled her second book of memoirs Pentimento, meaning the brush strokes and old images that struggle to emerge from a repainted canvas. You see that a lot in New Orleans: advertisements for defunct brands of beer and coffee poking through the fading paint of old brick buildings. Indeed, it has always been a city of masks and painted faces, with past mysteries and glories lurking faintly visible underneath...
...Blair has tried to brush off the recent bad news by playing on his reputation for strong leadership. He thoroughly reshuffled his Cabinet last week, even removing his longtime foreign minister Jack Straw, as if to say: I'm still in charge. At a Monday press conference, as well as at a gathering of Labour MPs, Blair declared he absolutely would not specify a timetable for departure...
President Vladimir Putin is reaping the benefit of the soaring economy. His approval rating is a rock-solid 70%. That support has allowed Putin to brush off his critics in the West, where the Russian President is often painted as a throwback to autocracy. The Kremlin has tightened its grip on society in recent years, cracked down on nongovernmental organizations and maneuvered to take control of natural resources and other industries it deems strategic. The Bush Administration, which has grown uneasy about Russian assertiveness beyond its borders, issued an unusually harsh indictment last week when Vice President Dick Cheney said...