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...question, there's a tumbledown, slacker spirit among some of the 81 artists that Huldisch and Momin have selected. Yet they also chose just enough work in which the materials may be humble but the ambitions are larger. New York artist Heather Rowe has adapted ideas from the late Gordon Matta-Clark, who sawed entire houses into parts to expose their strange and poignant innards. Rowe builds her own wooden frameworks, embedded with shards of mirrors and bits of vagrant molding, that create memory mazes, which double as Minimalist sculpture...
...internet search engines are a spookily accurate digital barometer of contemporary celebrity - in 2007, Google's Top Ten Search terms included Britney Spears, Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton; Gordon Brown didn't feature - Tussaud's is a clunkier analog version of the same thing. It conducts its own polling among its patrons (most visitors come from Britain, Germany, India and the U.S.) and also conducts wider market research to decide exactly which prominent people, living or dead, should be immortalized in a kind of tallow known as "Japan wax". Popularity among the patrons was what won Bollywood star Salman...
Addressing a crowd, debating in the House of Commons, or even just working a rope line, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown can seem pretty waxen. Brown's advisors have tried to counter this impression by showcasing the Prime Minister's human qualities. Until this week, that is. On Tuesday, in a startling reversal of its public relations strategy, Downing Street rushed to quash rumors that Brown might be less of a dummy than his predecessor, the consummate orator Tony Blair. A rash of media reports had claimed that Madame Tussaud's, the famous London waxworks exhibition with offshoots...
...Director David Gordon Green, whose script came from Stewart O'Nan's novel, has navigated these slippery shoals before. Green's George Washington, made in 2000, when he was just 25, plunged deep into the inarticulate depths of preteen love; and his All the Right Girls brought the same meticulous, poetic attention on college-age kids. Snow Angels, though seemingly broader and more conventional, has the Green love of repeated behavioral detail. We see a woman run her fingers through her hair and, moments later, her son does the same; an estranged couple faces each other, edgily she with...
...resolve some of Kenya's fundamental problems. We now have a coalition government that was forced on the Kenyan political élite by the international community. Had it not been for the vigorous intervention of Kenya's neighbors, and of the wider world - particularly Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who worked the phones ceaselessly - the belligerents would not have set aside their differences. The upside of this is that the Kenyan crisis has empowered the region and the African Union to intervene robustly when things go badly wrong in an important member country. The downside is that the giant...