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...Olympics tourists. But with so much foreign - and even some local - cash being injected into the Asian art world, it can be difficult for an artist to deviate from a successful formula. "When I started painting landscapes, people would say, 'But those might not sell as well as your mask series,'" recalls Zeng, whose latest works, part of a recent solo exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum, feature tangles of foliage painted with calligraphic precision...
...seen, and given a choice, most candidates would certainly prefer scrutiny to obscurity. Most of the other Republicans, after all, went unmentioned in Philadelphia, save for Sen. Barack Obama's sly (but no doubt rehearsed) aside at the end of the night that he might don a Mitt Romney mask for Halloween. "It has," he said, "two sides...
...either too cute or too crude. He's one of those actors who's always self-consciously acting like an actor instead of behaving like a human being. He's like a kid afflicted by the terrible twos, who having behaved badly then scrunches up his face into a mask of adorability in order to enlist our forgiveness. The result is the opposite. He makes us tired. And he makes the movie unforgivably tiresome...
...That attitude led to quite a few excesses. Ten years ago, when a malfunctioning electric chair caused a prisoner's leather mask to burst into flames during his execution, Florida's Democratic Attorney General Robert Butterworth joked that the problems with "Old Sparky" - the chair's nickname - were actually a good deterrent to murder. Things didn't improve much after then Governor Jeb Bush and the Republicans took power in Tallahassee in 1999, especially at the Department of Juvenile Justice. In June of 2003, Omar Paisley, 17, an inmate at a juvenile detention center in Miami that was filled...
...whatever it takes” mentality. In the film’s world, cops are still called pigs, cocaine rules the street, Blondie still plays at clubs, and mobsters with ponytails wear tight leather jackets. But such 80s cultural stereotypes seem anachronistic, mostly because they so poorly mask the fact that the questions at the film’s core are distinctly those of our time—a time when our country’s de facto cultural voice is some mongrel mishmash of Fox News and CNN. If only writer-director James Gray were more sensitive to these...