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Bashar al-Hroub gouges a square of chipboard with a chisel until the image of a woman's genitals emerges. The 27-year-old Palestinian artist is making prints for an exhibit that will highlight "things that are forbidden in our society," he says. Denounced in his own village near Hebron as immoral, al-Hroub came to this town of more than 100,000 citizens to join a new generation of artists whose focus is surprisingly free of the nationalism and violence for which Palestinians are usually noticed. The relative freedom of expression in Ramallah has fueled a major revival...
...which borrows its unshakable hook from ABBA, is one of the great dance tracks of the year. “Let It Will Be” features sweeping symphonies and a thumping bass a la “Die Another Day”; synth-heavy “Forbidden Love” recalls Cher’s smash hit “Believe”; and “Get Together” bears a resemblance to Stonebridge’s “Put ‘Em High,” one of the big Europop singles...
...toil in the dark, nursing an inferiority complex or a grudge. "What comics are going through is like a civil rights movement," says Spiegelman. "This museum show will help." Like Hitchcock thrillers and rock 'n' roll, comics are obeying the tidal pull of pop culture. What was once forbidden is now mainstream; what was once junk is now classic...
...resignation by most of their new subjects. How these foreign rulers used Chinese tradition, culture and ritual to consolidate their vast empire is a principal theme of the show and is illustrated with 400 objects, most the Emperors' own treasures, on loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City. Some items reveal facets of their personalities; others are designed to create imperial images that would promote their subjects' fealty. So important were the artworks in buttressing the family's right to rule that Qianlong inspected them all at draft stage. The Manchus had ousted the last Ming Emperor...
...first novel, Saman. The book, which has sold more than 100,000 copies and been reprinted 34 times, has made Utami the leading light of a genre dubbed "sastra wangi," or fragrant lit, the local term for a new wave of wildly popular female authors dealing with once-forbidden themes of sex, power and corruption...