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...Gil-yon, the North Korean ambassador to the United Nations, was slated to talk about “challenges in the region” from a North Korean standpoint, according to Kennedy School spokeswoman Melodie L. Jackson. The North Korean nuclear program would have likely been a topic of discussion, she said...
...regardless of how much money you have. On Thursday nights the Africa Bar does Afro-jazz for a tourist crowd; on Fridays Xima blasts out marrabenta, Mozambican fusion dance music, to the locals; le weekend is marked by live gigs at the Centro Cultural Francês and nearby Gil Vicente; while Coconuts blasts house music for those who were too young or busy warring to enjoy it the first time. And for a moment, when everybody's dancing, it feels like everybody's rich. africaguide.com
Carlos Casta?o Gil had plenty of enemies. You expect that of a death squad commander in Colombia who killed hundreds of peasants, leftist polticians and suspected Marxist sympathizers. But in the end it was his own older brother Vicente, "El Professor," who supposedly hired the assassins who killed Carlos. He was shot two years ago in an ambush, at the age of 39. But it wasn't until Sept. 1 that Casta?o's skeleton was dug out of a shallow grave in the jungle and identified by DNA testing. You wouldn't exactly call it a dignified burial for Casta?o...
...Cutting through the myths and gossip, Dalmia shows that Sher-Gil was a serious artist intent upon bridging the gulf between the Western-educated Indian ?lite to which she belonged, and the impoverished millions surrounding them. She wrote of traveling through India and finding it full "of dark-bodied, sad-faced, incredibly thin men and women who move silently looking almost like silhouettes." She decided her task would be "to interpret the life of Indians, particularly the poor Indians pictorially; to paint those images of infinite submission and patience." This she did like no one before her, filling canvases with...
...Sher-Gil was prolific in a short life, and some of her work seems hastily composed. But in her best paintings, brilliant details combine to create a timeless monumentality. In The Haldi Grinders, a group of women engaged in a mundane activity, crushing turmeric, are obscured by trees, their bodies distilled into a clutch of hands that grip the crushing wheel; we spy on them and their vivid hands as if trespassing on a religious mystery. The young Brahmins of Brahmacharis, with their distinctive faces, look like so many who still sit beside temples in South India, yet they could...