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...public "wrappings." And in a dozen commissions since, Kaldor has not only brought a who's who of contemporary art to Australia, from curator Harald Szeemann to video artist Nam June Paik, but amassed a seriously cool collection in the process. His newest KAP recruit is installation artist Urs Fischer, this year's Swiss representative at the Venice Biennale along with Ugo Rondinone, another KAP alumni. "He's got a passionate eye," says Engberg, director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. "He's very intuitive about what he likes, but his intuition often pays off in that...
...Washington, an energy policy less dependent on foreign oil and pushing Iraqis to take control of their own security. "He may not be as well-known, he may not be as well-funded, so it's important for him to get out as early as possible," said Gordon Fischer, the former head of the Iowa Democratic Party and a Vilsack backer...
Former German Foreign Minister Joschka M. Fischer offered his views on the future of the United States’ and Europe’s transatlantic relationship, European integration, and other global issues to a standing-room only Harvard European Conference at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) on Friday. In his introductory remarks, moderator David R. Gergen, public service professor of public leadership at KSG, joked that Fischer, who is currently a visiting professor at Princeton, “came here for some intellectual stimulation.” “I don’t want to interfere with...
Directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady weren't looking for controversy. They just wanted to make a documentary in which they "explored faith through the eyes of a child," as Grady puts it. But their search for that true-believing youngster took them to Becky Fischer ("her name kept coming up") and the summer camp she runs for evangelical children in North Dakota. What they found themselves recording for Jesus Camp were 8- to 10-year-old kids in the throes of religious ecstasy--including talking in tongues--and some unexpected connections between that primitive religiosity and hard-line conservative...
...dawn on Ewing and Grady until they began working with their footage in the cutting room. In a sense, Jesus Camp is a record of a crime--the theft of childhood by possibly well-intended but narrowly ideological adults. Its subjects, of course, don't see it that way. Fischer has said it's great publicity for her endeavors. And Ewing sees her point. "It's hard not to respect people who have deep passions," she says. Neither she nor Grady can entirely fathom why the Evangelicals feel so profoundly threatened in a largely tolerant U.S. They speculate that casual...