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...latest dictum is that ‘skills are obsolete,’’ Mitchnick writes in an email. ‘There is great work being made, important, current, contemporary, thought-provoking work that doesn’t depend on knowledge of or experience with materials. It doesn’t replace painting, but it fits more easily into academia...
...dictum that "war is the continuation of politics by other means" may have been coined by Carl von Clausewitz in 19th century Prussia, but it was given new meaning during Israel's 22-day offensive in Gaza. The troika of Israeli decision-makers that ran the military campaign - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak (leader of the Labor Party) and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (who replaced Olmert as leader of the Kadima party because of his impending corruption case) - are fierce political rivals. "If they were together on an island in a Survivor episode," says Reuven Hazan...
...Though they were produced in murderous times, the works at the Asia Society are almost uniformly cheery, following the dictum of Jiang Qing, Mao's fourth wife and ultimate cultural arbiter, that art be "red, bright and shining." In other words: propaganda. Asia Society Museum Director Melissa Chiu and co-curator Zheng Shengtian argue in the show's excellent catalog, however, that, didactic or not, socialist art represented a "significant cultural movement in China" - one that produced some "truly great art," especially paintings, and that such works "continue to influence Chinese visual culture." The contemporary installation artist Xu Bing, whose...
...America, it seems the dictum that “talking about politics is rude” has achieved the status of a universal truth. Even as our long election prompted chatter about Jeremiah Wright and Tina Fey, the culture in the United States still seems to be turned against more open, argumentative conversation about the political world...
...left the theater that A Christmas Tale was a little too jumpy for its own good, with too many characters and plot points hastily interwoven. But I've come to think that it is faithful to its essential purpose, which is to disprove the Tolstoyan dictum that unhappy families are each miserable in their own way. We do see something instructive about ourselves in this melodramatically grumbling group. We also appreciate anew that there is nothing like a nice French meal to steady our nerves and serve as the precondition for achieving at least a provisional resolution of our troubles...