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...patterned wall manages to do, the entire exhibit questions the very nature of queer art. Han Yu ’06, the exhibit’s curator, explains that she wasn’t merely attempting to display works by gay and lesbian artists. Even “straight up gay and lesbian depictions” were not on her radar; after all, she points out, with Abercrombie models photographed in homoerotic contexts and lipsticked models posing lesbian, the public has been flooded with such images. Yu wanted instead to gather works that could be read with a queer message...
...more. The program of Nov. 22 was particularly noteworthy: it was one of the largest congregations of BFA alumni and faculty ever to assemble in the United States, and for the first time outside of China, early student works by Fifth Generation filmmakers Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Han Gang were screened for audiences...
...years ago, a stroll along the Han River would not have been very pleasurable. Long treated as a convenient receptacle for industrial runoff, the Han is slowly being integrated into the daily life of the city's inhabitants. Where I recall apartments and ramshackle shops crowding the river's concrete banks, large tracts have been opened up, running for several miles through flowerbeds and past Seoul's business and government heart. Here is congestion of a different sort: zealous bikers, skaters and joggers compete with more placid lovers and retirees for room on the new pedestrian thoroughfare. A tree-planting...
...Kang, a retired schoolteacher, fishes from the embankment while offering me a lesson on the Han River's newfound cleanliness. Forget filtering plants and city ordinances, he says; it's all about working for a common cause. "During the World Cup we all came together. That is how Koreans are strong. We must teach children to treat the environment with respect. In Korea we can do that and succeed." Pulling a cigarette butt from his pocket, he explains, "Even my cigarettes, I collect them and take them away with me." At least he has something to carry home because, today...
...toting ajumas, older Korean women, and retired gentlemen with their newspapers. From the summit of Namsan the megalopolis of Seoul sprawls before you. The historic part of town, with its complex of royal palaces, lies at the mountain's base just to the north, while to the south the Han River glitters on its way to the port of Incheon and the Yellow Sea. And just below, nestled in a sea of greenery, is a reminder of South Korea's unenviable honor as the final holdout in the Cold War: the Yongsan garrison, the joint headquarters of the United States...