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...background noise give it an eerie quality.Much of Salazar’s art has this same eeriness.“I am interested in the relationship between power and awareness, or lack of awareness, in the context of violence, and the sensation of living in a sort of fog state where the elements that control one’s environment are not immediately visible,” Salazar says.This interest in power relations stems from her meditations on politics, she says. She is currently pursuing her political interests while she works for the independent news program Democracy Now! and conducts...
...lowest since 1976. While some education data could be better, sat scores are up. Finally, I think it's naive to believe that there are cultures in which teens are entirely without turmoil. To some extent, being a teenager means being in turmoil. Read more at time.com/robertepstein London Fog Judging from the published letters that were critical of the European Union [April 16], many British do not feel European and still live in the atmosphere symbolized by that famous headline: fog on the channel; continent isolated. When people criticize the supposed lack of democracy with which the E.U. rules...
Allegedly during the 1930s, The Times cover properly synthesized Britons’ idea of themselves in relation to Europe: “Dense fog over English Channel. Continent isolated.” Britannia did not love the Continent much. With the European Union (EU) turning 50 years old last week, times seem to have changed. But how much...
...wander through each chartered street...And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe.”In her prose, Chevalier lyrically captures the prevailing mood of London as a lurid “yellow light from the pub staining the fog the color of phlegm.” Yet she has this darkness intermittently cut through by the explosion of fireworks from Astley’s circus, “burning bright in the night sky.”The explosions can have a terribly destructive effect but they can also bring peals of laughter...
...then, Majerus was dividing his time between Los Angeles and his large eastern Berlin studio. On Nov. 6, 2002, the artist boarded a Luxair flight from Berlin to Luxembourg. It crashed in heavy fog 10 km from its destination, killing him and 19 others. He was 35 years old. Five years later, Michel Majerus' bold, outsize talent has returned to the country of his birth, to a museum that may help gain for Luxembourg the artistic glory that was once within his grasp...