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...astronauts are scheduled to don the spacesuits, and one will make the historic spacewalk. A small monitoring satellite will be released from the ship during the mission. The crew is People's Liberation Army Air Force fighter pilots Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng. "Shenzhou VII is another breakthrough in China's development of manned spaceflght, and we are entrusted with an honorable mission with historical significance," Zhai told a pre-launch press conference on Sept. 24. "As an astronaut, it is the greatest honor to launch into space on behalf of our motherland...
...might also have veto power over whether a foreign painter gets to set up his outdoor studio on its turf. They're unlikely to have known that Liu was a millon-dollar painter - his support team telling anyone who asked that the Naples work was a "university project." (Liu does teach at Universtiy of Beijing.) Still, one person had told the local driver of the artist and crew, "We know where they're staying." In the end, the project appeared to have garnered a tacit approval, because by the final day, it had become clear that...
...event, the greatest danger to Liu and his crew came not from local mafiosi, but from the canker sores, rashes, flu and other maladies resulting from spending six hours a day working amid rotting garbage. With the Mt. Vesuvius volcano looming in the background, Liu titled the work, Shang Huo (Festering Heat). And the vitality of the image, he says, derives from it being created amid the stench of its subject matter...
...centerpiece of the 19-by-24-foot trashscape is a mountain of discarded mattresses. Shredded, torn and piled one on top of another, he renders them both distasteful and somehow comforting. Adding a few strokes to capture a surprising softness of one brown fouton, Liu steps back and looks over his work. "Everything has been used by humans," he says. "You feel it in your heart...
...Panama banana crates and Sicilian oranges, boxes from made-in-Vietnam Nike sneakers, Dior perfume from France, and Glutatione and Metoclopramide medicines bottles from Milan. No sign of any Made in China products. Of course, just like the empty bread bag and twisted remains of a pink baby stroller, Liu Xiaodong's latest product was Made in Naples. And like most of his paintings, it will likely be sold in China...