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...Kandinsky, the horsemen in Blue Mountain had a symbolic meaning as emblems of expressive freedom. In 1911, when he formed an artists' group with Franz Marc, Alexei Jawlensky and a few other like-minded painters, they called it the Blue Rider. (Blue signified spirituality to him.) And by that year, with his succinctly titled Picture with a Circle, Kandinsky was galloping full speed in the direction of complete abstraction. But for him, abstract images were also representations of a kind, correlatives of spiritual realities. He was an admirer of the Russian mystic Madame Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy, a stew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worlds Within | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...make the Cotonou declaration the first step of a worldwide campaign aimed at raising awareness of the problem and persuading governments to impose tougher penalties and improve routine testing of medications. The larger goal is to establish an international convention on counterfeit drugs as early as next year. Marc Gentilini, a French medical professor and expert on tropical diseases who is advising Chirac, says the problem is urgent. The lack of clear international rules governing counterfeit medicines, he says, means that trafficking them is currently "less risky and more lucrative than trafficking narcotics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Stop the Counterfeit-Medicine Drugs Trade | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...Miss Sweetie Poo is always great," said event organizer Marc Abrahams, "but Isabel is really something." Isabel has appeared in ballet performances and a television commercial, although she enjoyed the role of Miss Sweetie Poo the most...

Author: By ABIGAIL B. LIND, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sweetly Giving Kanye a Run for His Money | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...commercial, "I was told to do this, and do that, and do this, and I got a bit cranky," she admits. She was allowed more freedom at the Ig Nobel ceremony. "I really did like it when Marc said, ‘Isabel, you’ve done enough now,’ even though he knew that I wasn’t going to stop," she says...

Author: By ABIGAIL B. LIND, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sweetly Giving Kanye a Run for His Money | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...Krugman. Did we mention she had been wearing that very bra? What good sports.  “If you didn’t win an Ig Nobel prize tonight—and especially if you did—better luck next year,” said MC Marc Abrahams. Bewildered, FM couldn’t agree more as we quickly escaped through the nearest exit...

Author: By CAROLINE P. DAVIS, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weirdos Unite | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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