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...other hand, there's Rent Collection Courtyard. It's a replica of more than 100 life-size clay statues that were originally crafted in Shanghai in 1965 as pure Maoist agitprop, a tableau of peasants being abused by a greedy landlord and his thugs. In 1999 Cai had a team of artisans reproduce the ensemble for the Venice Biennale. Set in a new context, as they are again at the Guggenheim, the figures took on a new meaning. They became artifacts of a bygone communist order and the lost power of its coercive spectacles...
...after he graduated from Yale and got a master's in art at Columbia University and was living illegally in an artist's studio in Manhattan. Arnold loved to cook but had only a hidden dorm fridge and a hot plate. When he didn't get caught by the landlord, he amped it up, adding a meat slicer and a deli case. "But nothing is like having a commercial deep fryer," he says. "That's a life changer...
...characters: The high-strung principal Mrs. Kennedy, concerned only with the school’s statewide Regents scores and the federal grants that depend on them; the abrasive security guard, who sends students home if they dare sport so much as a metal belt buckle; Sun’s landlord, who believes that sending all students to Catholic school would solve the problems of the American educational system; and Sun herself, the dedicated teacher who, after attending Catholic school for twelve years, “didn’t know [she] was black until college.” And those...
...central conflict is between landlord Gustave Marcassol (Jaime Williams) and his prim wife Claudine (Harvard theater veteran Masha O. Godina ’08), who, although together just a year, are already mired in the marital monotony of slipper-knitting and collar-starching...
Enter Countess Popova (Eve H. Bryggman ’10), a velvet-clad Russian vamp who rents a room beneath the Marcassols. Unable to restrain himself, Gustave quickly becomes more than just the Countess’ landlord. But he is convinced that he can only run away with her if he can secure a suitable second husband for Claudine...