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...idea that corporate sponsors seek to influence the creative direction of the artists or galleries they sponsor. Can the marriage of art and business succeed? To find out, TIME looked at three countries on the frontier where artistic vision meets financial pressure. LONDON Clear voices, raised in song, rang through St. Paul's Church in London's Covent Garden late last month. The music was "a singing strike" by choristers from the English National Opera (ENO), which faces €1.75 million in debt and whose management has proposed that its core group of 60 singers be reduced by one-third...
...Hong Kong was almost the birthplace of a disastrous pandemic. A strain of avian flu called H5N1 leaped the species barrier and infected 18 people, killing six, before the slaughter of the city's 1.4 million chickens helped stop the spread. Last week, alarm bells rang anew when a local 33-year-old man and his nine-year-old son contracted a similar virus. The father died of pneumonia Feb. 17, while the son remains in stable condition. Officials say the victims were probably infected through contact with chickens while visiting China's Fujian province, and that until H5N1...
...space-time continuum). This kind of specialization is typical of the genre--romance novels are marketed more like computers or Tupperware than books. They are not works of art. They are highly targeted commodities, engineered to a set of tightly controlled specifications. The formula seems to work: romance novels rang up $1.5 billion in retail sales last year...
...Monument. When he finally reached Tim Goeglein of the Office of Public Liaison, Brownback put his request for a show of support bluntly: "If you're going to take this position, now's the time to announce." Less than an hour later, it was Brownback's cell phone that rang. In his first reversal of Clinton Administration policy, the new President--who had downplayed abortion during his campaign--said he would block federal money from international family-planning organizations that offer or counsel abortion. The crowd roared when Brownback delivered the news...
Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri and her husband, Taufik Kiemas, rang in 2003 in style. They celebrated New Year's Eve at the presidential palace in Bali, where Megawati crooned Indonesian classics from the 1970s. Earlier that same day, they had celebrated Taufik's birthday and launched his book Without the People Leadership Means Nothing at the five-star Grand Bali Beach Hotel...