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...Although our artists may not draw the highest prices, they glean prizes and international recognition. Buren won Japan's Praemium Imperiale for painting in 2007, Christian Boltanski received it for sculpture in 2006, and Annette Messager won the Golden Lion at the 2005 Venice Biennale...
...Uncultivated America!" I wanted to cry out. But no. The United States has many researchers, scholars, thinkers and artists of the highest level. Only they don't write in TIME. Maurice Druon, MEMBER OF THE ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE, IN LE FIGARO...
...Gergiev of the Kirov Opera has developed a global group of admirers for the epic Russian operas he has resurrected. Indeed, Gergiev was scheduled to take the stage at the Met this Christmas, but then Beijing called. They wanted him to open the first performance season of China's highest palace of performance, the $40 million National Grand Theater, better known in Beijing by its shape, as the "egg." The building, designed by the French architect Paul Andreu, is a gleaming dome with a subtle ying-yang design, surrounded by water and one of the most distinctive new buildings...
...rise in food and fuel prices. Last Saturday, about 20,000 people took part in a demonstration called by unions to protest against the political state of paralysis and the aforementioned price hikes. Last week, the Belgian central bank said inflation would speed up next year to its highest rates of the decade, while economic growth will slow more than previously projected. On top of that, the European Commission has also warned that the political paralysis is beginning to affect Belgium's economy...
...country accustomed to civility and consensus rather than conflict, the unprecedented ousting of a Cabinet member - for the most part, ministers leave the Federal Council out of their own volition - has been hotly debated on the streets and in the highest reaches of government. Although some members of his party were visibly upset when the election results were announced, the center and left parties, which joined ranks to vote Blocher out of the office, expressed their satisfaction that "democracy has prevailed." And, in a nationwide survey conducted shortly after the election, 60 percent of Swiss citizens said they were happy...