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...like a noisy neighbor, see each day as a little test that must be passed to get to tomorrow. (It's the difference between two views of North Korea: the Bush Administration's and South Korea's.) To put it another way: Western filmmakers are looking for infantile or cartoon solutions; the Asians are the grownups, the realists, the inch-by-inch copers...
...hard in Singapore, and we are only now coming to grips with the situation. The government has done a commendable job of alleviating fears. There is a weekly TV program called Living with SARS, and there are notices on the windshields of some public buses with a cartoon of a bus driver saying, "I'm O.K.! Temperature 98.6°." SARS won't be disappearing anytime soon, but innovative coping techniques are showing people that there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. ELEANOR YAP Singapore...
Takashi Murakami thinks it might be time to give the whole Louis Vuitton thing a bit of a rest. Best known for his giant, swirling, phantasmagorical canvases starring a cartoon imp named Mr. DOB, Murakami has long been Japan's hottest contemporary artist and an international art-world phenomenon. In the past two years alone, the 41-year-old painter had racked up a career's worth of milestones, including solo shows at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary...
...relevant anymore? These are questions that fuel Murakami's career.) Murakami purposely engineers a neo-Pop Art universality to his work, making his art both effortlessly accessible and intellectually provocative?an ingenious feat. His sometimes sincere, usually ironic, often disturbing plays on the empty smiles and bright colors of cartoon cute are designed to appeal to the preteen in Tokyo who just wants a cell-phone strap with an adorable character on it, while also attracting the attention of the doctoral student in Frankfurt forever hunting for subversive subtexts...
Lying flat on the window sill, waiting to be hung, is a blown-up, framed copy of the cartoon that ran on The Crimson editorial page March 19, 2003. The cartoon depicts President Lawrence H. Summers as a puppeteer, manipulating Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who is giving Lewis the boot...