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...tattooed, dreadlock-sporting members of radical agitprop collective Taring Padi despise materialism, and spend their days producing banners and posters urging social reform in their native Indonesia. It would therefore be a delicious irony if their work became collectable - clucked over in galleries by affluent, Shiraz-sipping dilettantes. But stranger things have happened in the world of art, and the group - with around 10 artists at its core - now finds itself enjoying a modicum of celebrity...
...Taring Padi's artists have been asked to hold an exhibition at the National Gallery in Jakarta and to show alongside the paintings of the great Indonesian artist Sudjojono at a retrospective of his work in Singapore in May. The World Bank has commissioned them to produce works for poverty-alleviation and anticorruption campaigns starting later this year. The group is even making hesitant steps in the direction of merchandizing, setting up a shop near its old squat (they used to live in a derelict building on the campus of Yogyakarta's Indonesian Institute of the Arts, known after...
...swimming among humpback whales, leopard seals and penguins. Visibility is excellent, and spectacular marine life like sea stars, brittle stars and coral puts on a stunning display. In optimum ice, water and wind conditions, groups may dive as many as four times in two days. Divers must hold PADI or NAUI Advanced Open Water credentials. Accommodation ranges from triple cabins with shared facilities to suites aboard the good ship Akademik Shokalskiy. The rate for a diving expedition is $595 per person. tel: (1-203) 656 0499; www.quarkexpeditions.com...
...swimming among humpback whales, leopard seals and penguins. Visibility is excellent, and spectacular marine life like sea stars, brittle stars and coral puts on a stunning display. In optimum ice, water and wind conditions, groups may dive as many as four times in two days. Divers must hold PADI or NAUI Advanced Open Water credentials. Accommodation ranges from triple cabins with shared facilities to suites aboard the good ship Akademik Shokalskiy. The rate for a diving expedition is $595 per person. tel: (1-203) 656 0499; www.quarkexpeditions.com If fishing is your thing, a trip to the Pantanal in western Brazil...
...Locals are wary of getting caught in the cross fire. By dusk, streets are deserted and homes and shops shuttered in many small towns. "Frankly, we're too afraid to go out at night," says Waehamad Ismail, a farmer who lives on the edge of Sungai Padi. The police are even more nervous. To calm his officers, National Police Chief Sant Saturanond headed south last week to hand out 1,500 bulletproof vests. And if Kevlar doesn't work, maybe magic will. The chief brought along a revered Buddhist monk to distribute sacred, protective amulets...