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...public institutions for them to be seen next to history. Painters are in some dynamic and negotiated relationship with the thought of the art historian. There was, as there is now, a three-way relationship between the art historian, the museum and the artist. And the private collector fuels that...
...ceremony of Afghan leader Hamid Karza and then chased the fleeing tribesmen into a village, killing 60, say locals. On Feb. 4, a Predator drone fired a Hellfire missile at a man who U.S. Central Command thought might be bin Laden. Villagers say the dead man was a scrap collector; the Pentagon says he was al-Qaeda. And on Jan. 24, special forces raided a compound in Uruzgan province, killing 16. Locals say the victims were not Taliban or al-Qaeda but supporters of Karzai...
...plastic. But Maxx isn't just another Ken or G.I. Joe doll. Maxx has attitude?and a cult following. So does his 31-year-old Hong Kong creator Michael Lau, whose original, street-savvy figures have molded him into a hot icon among the most unlikely doll collectors imaginable: Tokyo's jaded, trend-setting twentysomethings. To reach that desirable market, Nike Japan featured Lau in a series of Presto shoe advertisements two years ago and Levi Strauss Japan quickly jumped on the bandwagon, using Lau to plug its Engineered Jeans line. Moreover, his appeal to the hip-hop generation seems...
...produced a mini-Vietnam complex: soldiers returned from fighting dismayed that their government had sent them unprepared to a conflict they could not win. Liang was a little different: he came back to his native Hunan province more patriotic than ever and took a job as a government tax collector. That's when disillusionment set in, as Liang discovered from the inside a system riddled with corruption...
...first of its bi-annual coffee-table-style "special editions." (And you had better have a coffee-table too, because this one-foot-square, heavy paper stock book needs surface area and support.) Taking a"McSweeny's"-style approach that puts it on bookshelves rather than into cardboard collector's boxes, this first issue clearly has the intention of broadening the audience for taking comix seriously...