Word: neos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CHEAP $199 VISOR NEO If you want the most bytes for your buck, Handspring is the way to go, and its new Visor Neo (paging all Matrix fans) is the best low-priced PDA around. Inexpensive as it is, the Neo gives you more power than most people ever use, including 8MB of memory, a galaxy of Palm software and the Springboard line of hardware add-ons. www.handspring.com...
...London's Hayward Gallery. "It is a time in which there is a profound sense of anxiety about the future as well as a strong sense of self-reflection and analysis," says curator Rachel Kent, who has brought nine emerging Japanese artists and their work to Australia for "NEO-TOKYO: Japanese Art Now," which runs at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art until...
...Kenji Yanobe's bubble-blowing Astro Boy wall sculpture, Myeong-eun Shin's floor of 400 plastic pink poodles, and Satoshi Hirose's room of 5,000 fragrant lemons seem to celebrate Japan's ongoing culture of kawaii (cute). But like a sugar-coated almond, "NEO-TOKYO" leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste...
...beatific expressions, Yoshitomo Nara's Little Pilgrims (Nightwalkers), 1998, could be the Teletubbies?until one notices they are swaddled in bandages. These enigmatic figures are portraits of "a generation that somehow lost its way and is facing an uncertain future," says curator Kent, "a damaged generation." In this sense, "NEO-TOKYO" is very much the art of post-traumatic healing...
...NEO-TOKYO" concludes with a message of hope from an emerging underground of artists unafraid to grapple with present-day anxieties or turn a painful past into objects of edifying beauty...