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...control--the international market for oil and natural gas, for instance. High prices have kept Russia's economy stable despite Putin's throttling of foreign investment and domestic small businesses. His bravado on the international stage, a key to his popularity at home, depends on Moscow's ability to project power, using natural gas and oil as its weapons. If that arsenal fails him because of worldwide price drops, it won't matter what his title is after the election. Putin could still join Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev as Russian leaders remembered most for the opportunities they wasted...
...SFMOMA exhibition, which travels later to New York City and Dallas, is Eliasson's first American museum show. It arrives at a time when he's the object of intense curiosity in U.S. art circles, largely because of The weather project, a hugely popular installation he produced four years ago for London's Tate Modern. Eliasson covered the 115-ft.-high (35 m) ceiling of the Tate's immense Turbine Hall in mirror foil, added an artificial sun of 200 yellow lightbulbs arranged behind translucent plastic and periodically filled the upper air with mist. During the installation's six-month...
...weather project was Eliasson's Sistine Chapel, and it made him a star of some magnitude, a role he's still not quite comfortable with. He sees his work as an antidote to the consuming spectacles of our time-TV, video, computer games-so he would rather not turn into a spectacle himself. His ambition is not just to delight people but also to awaken them out of a passive relation to the world. Whether this is a job mere art can accomplish remains to be seen. But it helps to explain why Eliasson has given quite...
...things have been opening (with friends) Tagine, a Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills, where he sometimes helps out in the kitchen, and raising cash to direct a passion project about child soldiers in Uganda. "I've been all over town for that," he says. "Nobody wants to be the one that says no to the child-soldier movie. Everyone tells me, 'If you put a Hollywood actor in it,' but it's not that kind of a movie." Last year during Oscar-campaign season, Gosling was in Uganda researching the film instead of shaking hands at cocktail parties...
...wasn't a perfect fit. Apple is famously secretive, surprising the market with its new products, while Nike usually informs retailers of its plans six months in advance. In this case, Nike acquiesced to the Apple way, putting Nike Plus on sale just 50 days after announcing it. The project carried code names: Nike, the goddess of victory in Greek mythology, was Victoria North, and Apple was Victoria South...