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...whether internal pressures or external forces will somehow throw China's rise off course. Outside its borders, the new China has plenty of friends. How could it not? Its growing markets and voracious appetite for the world's goods are making companies and their workers wealthy, from Latin American cattle ranchers to French vineyards. In the U.S., the ever increasing flood of low-priced Chinese products has enabled rising standards of living for years (even as it has made job security in some areas more tenuous...
...style than to more abstract or conceptual works, but is proud of that fact. "It communicates very easily with people," he says. So is Botero a great artist, or just a very, very successful one? Botero's corpulent characters - comical but keenly observed renderings of rotund ballerinas, families and Latin American small-town types like the ladies in The Gardening Club (1997) - are instantly recognizable. Even acknowledged reproductions of his work sell for hundreds of dollars on eBay. Two years ago, the British magazine ArtReview compiled a Top 10 ranking of the most highly valued artists in terms...
...Botero paintings and drawings it owns. Joe La Placa, London-based director of artnet.com, a modern-art database, says that for years Botero was regarded as "an innovator." Now, La Placa believes his current work is "a pale imitation of what he did many years ago." Yet in Latin America, Botero's appeal puts him "in a category all of his own," says Julián Zugazagoitia, director of El Museo del Barrio, a Latin American art museum in New York City. Criss-crossing the world between his five homes, Botero ships all his work to Zurich to be stored...
While students learn of their English honors recommendation beforehand, they are not informed of their Latin awards until Commencement...
...dolls, flags, and other artifacts filling Matory’s shelves represent some of the religions of Latin American and African peoples that the professor has spent his career studying...