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...With such fervent ideological partisans of free speech as higher education’s mouthpieces, one could expect similarly impassioned rhetoric to accompany the advent of “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” today. An initiative led by the neoconservative critic of academia David Horowitz and others, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week intends to highlight the silence about atrocities committed in the name of Islam on college campuses, where blaming America is all in vogue...
...Italian contemporary art critic and curator Achille Bonito Oliva has long considered Toscani an important artist, and provided him with two large salas at the 1993 Venice Biennele which he presided over. "The function of art is to puncture the collective disinterest," says Bonito Oliva. "Toscani has turned on its head American pop art's optimistic idea of consumerism...
...Washington bridge. Feel free to make your own analogies. After all, Steichen (1879-1973) bridged the transition from photography's early soft-focus, pictorialist style to crisp modernism. He also linked the art world between New York and Paris, and made his own life a bridge from artist to critic to commercial photographer to museum curator. He has been hailed as the greatest photographer of the 20th century, and the Jeu de Paume show - with more than 400 works on display - helps support the claim. This exhibition, surprisingly the first Steichen retrospective in Europe, continues until Dec. 30, before going...
...British racetrack regular; as Kuriko, the mistress of Japanese mobster; as Lucy, a broken woman. Vargas Llosa has worn many hats himself, from a prominent Latin American intellectual who hob-nobbed with the likes of Castro and Garcia Marquez to a one-time Peruvian presidential candidate, from a literary critic to a novelist and later a professor, from the husband of his aunt to the husband of his cousin. A sometime resident of Bolivia, Peru, Spain, France, and the United States, Vargas Llosa’s life has been, in many ways, as cosmopolitan and as diverse...
...films made in India every year. Film industries in the south - Tamil, Telegu, Malayali - are huge, as is the Bhojpuri industry in central India. India has also long produced first-rate art films, from the work the legendary Satyajit Ray to contemporary maestros like Govind Nihalani and Shyam Benegal. Critic Chakravorty says the new brand of cinema caters to the viewer who is exposed to art house but also enjoys Bollywood. The budgets are typically small, the cast are good actors but not necessarily stars, and the audience is select. "Noir, comedy, sports - new genres are being explored," says film...