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...understand this passion for garbage?and dried toads?one must visit an eighth-floor apartment in Bangkok's Chinatown, where a process of transformation occurs that has made this 38-year-old Irishman one of Asia's most unusual and gifted artists. Here, in his bachelor-pad-cum-studio, Swaffield recycles carefully scavenged refuse from across the continent into rare works of art?pieces like Bali, an achingly exquisite collage finished in gold leaf, or Chinatown, an exuberant homage to Swaffield's favorite Hong Kong graffiti artist. Hanging in his tiny bathroom is Conjunctivitis, a maniacal disco ball formed from...
...first-ever international tour of the museums’ Grenville L. Winthrop Collection—part of the largest university art museum holdings in the country—kicked off in Lyon, France last weekend. The show, “A Private Passion,” includes more than 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures by many notable artists, including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gogh...
Spencer has been along this road before, of course. Endless Love, his megaselling 1979 novel, was about a teenager led by crazy passion to burn down his girlfriend's house and later bring on the death of her father. (Don't blame him for the Brooke Shields movie.) For A Ship Made of Paper, his eighth novel, Spencer worked with different characters but similar desperations. Daniel is a New York City lawyer who flees back to Leyden, his childhood home on the Hudson River north of the city. It's a place on the literary map somewhere between Cheeverville...
...from producing weapons-grade uranium. Amid concerns that Pyongyang was preparing to test a ballistic missile capable of reaching the Japanese mainland, Japan dispatched a reconnaissance ship toward the Korean peninsula and news reports said Tokyo was mulling sanctions if the test went ahead. MEANWHILE IN THAILAND ... Crimes of Passion Thai police have to fight not only criminals, but amorous advances from members of the public inflamed by their tight-fitting uniforms. Police report that emergency telephone lines are receiving an average of 400 suggestive calls a month, 60% of them from men. A growing number of websites catering...
When Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi ’68 rose to speak, first he was just one man, standing in a large hall in front of an administration united behind preregistration and seemingly unwilling to budge. But he spoke against the proposal with passion and with clarity—and with the voice of 6,500 undergraduates. He and his nine colleagues—including Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60, who is co-authoring A World Transformed: A Global History of the Twentieth Century with Kirby—may just have turned...