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Above the set, a series of five panels depicts elegant drawings of moments in A’s younger life as she would like to view them— from walking with her sister to dancing with her husband. As more and more painful facts from her past come to light, the panels rotate to depict crudely drawn, unappealingly sexual images that depict A’s true feelings toward them. While imaginative and effective in portraying A’s inner feelings, the panels were largely redundant, visually underscoring what the play had already said. They neither truly added...
...Ghanaian artist El Anatsui makes a dazzling metal cloth, reminiscent of ceremonial fabrics, from thousands of aluminum bottle tops. Mozambican sculptor Gon?alo Mabunda domesticates assault rifles and other weapons by transforming them into furniture. In Le Monde Vomissant (The Vomiting World), Democratic Republic of Congo painter Ch?ri Samba depicts a starving globe throwing up the American continents, some guns and a tank. Romuald Hazoum? from Benin stacks dozens of decorated plastic cans into a modern totem pole, while Cameroon-born Samuel Fosso's self-portraits depict him as a tribal chief, an elegant woman and a pirate. Elsewhere as part...
Romuald Hazoumé from Benin stacks dozens of decorated plastic cans into a modern totem pole, while Cameroon-born Samuel Fosso's self-portraits depict him as a tribal chief, an elegant woman and a pirate. Elsewhere as part of "Africa 05," the British Museum and other venues will present the continent's history, identity and culture through artifacts, dance, literature, drama, fashion, cinema and lots more. Africa's year, indeed. tel: (44-20) 7960 5226; www.hayward.org.uk; www.africa05.co.uk
...known for bringing a fresh eye to so-called Indian art in the 1960s and '70s; of complications from diabetes; in Scottsdale, Ariz. One-quarter Native American, he initially refused to paint Indians, saying he hated the usual sentimental images of them as noble savages. In 1967, vowing to depict "real, not red," he changed his mind. His "Indian" series included the still striking rendering of a Native American man wrapped in an American flag, based on 19th century prison photographs of Indians dressed in surplus flags after their tribal regalia had been confiscated...
...Koreans want to know the make-up of the new Bush administration and want Washington to stop making "negative" comments about their regime. Pyongyang is particularly interested in Bush's State of the Union address at the end of the month, the forum the President used in 2002 to depict North Korea as part of an "axis of evil" along with Iraq and Iran...