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...exhibition that will run at Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum until Aug. 29, offers a rare and fascinating look at the captive artists' spin on life in the Hermit Kingdom. The 285 works on display are relatively recent, but they might easily have come from Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao's China. The North Korean art clock seems to have stopped circa 1930-50, and the impression that emerges from the exhibition is of a remote, sad and strangely poignant land...
...vicious" film, lamenting: "It's so ugly, and I've always maintained that the only things to uphold are the good, the true and the beautiful. We have to reject what's ugly." She adds: "The best compliment I ever got in my life came from Chairman Mao of China. When I went there, at a time when nobody wanted to touch China with a 10-foot pole, Mao told me that I'm beautiful because I'm a natural, and he said natural is perfection. So, no character assassination can diminish me and my perfection...
...Mao said she would miss Fonseca’s “devil-may-care presence and good-natured dedication” and called him “a very talented filmmaker...
...Mao said Fonseca recounted his Harvardwood experiences during the frequent shuttle rides they shared to and from the HRTV studio in Pforzheimer House...
...last trip, he told me all about all the professional connections he had made,” Mao wrote in an e-mail. “He had such ambition...