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...English mother - were Pakistanis, and whose friends went out on weekends looking for brown-skinned people to beat up, spun his anger into art. While other children of immigrants tried to create an identity through cast-iron faith, Kureishi forged his through rebellious fiction. His works were a mosh pit of high and low Western culture, with knowing references to Wittgenstein and Genet, ecstasy raves and gay sex. Suddenly, Asian Britain wasn't just about corner shops, victimhood and longing for Bombay, but anarchy...
...centers rather than one: a conventional literary center, governed by mainstream publishing - with its big names and fancy prizes and high-end art direction - and a new one where books rise to fame and prominence YouTube-style, in the rough and tumble of the great Web 2.0 mosh pit. The two centers will affect each other gravitationally and swap authors back and forth between them, but they're not likely to eat each other. With any luck, they'll energize each other...
...close range, the sketchy forms can dissolve into a tangle of near illegible, stutter-step brushstrokes. Tintoretto's portraits were more restrained - aristocratic clients expected to be offered to the world as paragons of poise. But any religious or mythological scene, he could turn into a costumed mosh...
...YORK CITY Lacoste Musician Michael Stipe teams up with Lacoste to design a limited-edition polo shirt featuring a photo print of a mosh pit (above; $155) for its Holiday Collection series, available only at the Fifth Avenue store...
...white horse, wearing gold shorts, covered in red glitter body paint, and hanging from a noose.Yeah, their live shows are a bit extravagant, but that seems to be the point, a continuation of their over-the-top music. And after turning Roseland Ballroom into a big sexually ambiguous mosh pit just over a week ago and turning out a pretty respectable cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” accompanied by MGMT’s Andrew Van Wyngarden (with whom Barnes is now collaborating on a side project), Of Montreal look...