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...Today, school curriculums that had focused on Chinese history and geography center on Taiwan. Learning a local dialect such as Taiwanese, Hakka or aborigine - languages the KMT once banned in the classrooms - is now compulsory in elementary school. Today's youth and pop artists have also sparked a movement that embraces local culture. An ethnic slur, taike - which Taiwan's mainlanders used decades ago to describe the uncultured locals they found on the island - has become something cool. Taike now means a "Taiwanese character" (as in "that guy's a real character"). In his hit rap song I Love...
Even evanescent events have a kind of art-history pedigree. Dada, the anti-art phenomenon that grew out of disgust with World War I, was as much a café phenomenon as it was an art movement. And more recently there has been Rirkrit Tiravanija, the Thai artist best known for cooking and serving meals for visitors at his gallery shows, at which the art was the shared experience of the meal. To serve and nourish, and to reflect on it while you are doing it, in a world that's gotten used to performance art--maybe that...
...career. However,O’Connor’s fusion of genres hascreated a new form of violin music. Hehopes that his creativity and synthesisof genres will inspire his fellow musicians.“I think that if you’re going to tryand create a musical movement youneed to force musicians to look outside the box,” O’Connor said. “That iswhat I’m trying to do.” He noted that itis helpful to use the masters as a guide,but it is necessary to remain inventive.O...
...feel a little guilty about not supporting the first woman with a legitimate chance of becoming the most powerful person in the world. But if I were to vote for Hillary Clinton solely on the basis of her gender, is that really a vote of confidence for the feminist movement? In fact, it’s reverse discrimination—a problematic solution to a serious problem...
...primary, on Tuesday totaled more than four times that number. "I am grateful to the people of Mississippi for joining the millions of Americans from every corner of the country who have chosen to turn the page on the failed politics of the past and embrace our movement for change," Obama said Tuesday night...