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...sate a politically repressed populace - chic clothes, cell phones, fast-food wrappers - these lonely figures wear blank or artificially cheery expressions. "As a child, my classmates and I sang revolutionary songs, and we had to write Mao's expressions over and over," says 43-year-old Zeng Fanzhi, whose portrait of a masked man with a cauterized visage sold for $1.63 million in London last month. "Then, suddenly we were told, 'That's finished, you will love money now.'" Puffing on a Cuban cigar at a five-star hotel's café in Shanghai, Zeng gazes at the other patrons...
...This portrait of the party's Machiavellian backroom politics runs sharply counter to China's government-sanctioned mythology, and Gao's book has already been controversial in his homeland. Chinese officials pressured him not to publish, he says, and even made veiled threats toward his family still living in China. The Chinese version, published in 2003, was banned - although it became a black-market best seller. Gao is unsurprised by the fuss. "After Tiananmen, the government lost power," he says. "Zhou is now the only party leader who the people respect and love. If his reputation is destroyed, there will...
...Harvard College Women’s Center’s fourth art show exhibits works by eight Harvard undergraduates seeking to describe the “Harvard experience” through self-portraits. About 30 artists, friends, and even a few freshman parents filled the Women’s Center when the show opened at 7 p.m. Friday night. The media used in the students’ artwork ranged from photography to silk-screening to newsprint collages to dot stickers. While the subjects of the self-portraits spanned a broad spectrum, two of the artists placed a special focus...
...Phony Friendship Joel Stein's "You Are Not My Friend" was a hilarious and true portrait of "friendship" online [Oct. 15]. Facebook can be a fun diversion - it's a great procrastination tool - but it serves mainly to allow streams of self-important updates from people who are not true friends, and to make users more concerned with monitoring others' lives than with living their own. Elizabeth Findel, Steamboat Springs, Colorado...
Joel Stein's "You Are Not My Friend" was a hilariously true portrait of "friendship" online [Oct.15]. Facebook can be a fun diversion, but it mainly streams self-important updates from people who are not true friends and makes users more concerned with monitoring others' lives than with living their...