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...games begin outside the handsome Guangdong Museum of Art at 38 Yanyu Lu, Ersha Island, where large, red letters that read IN GOD WE TRUST are poised above sculptor Wang Guangyi's bulky, socialist-realist statues of heroic workers that emerge out of the ground like ghosts from the Cultural Revolution. Sincerity jousts with irony, old communist values with new China's avarice. Greed, of course, has the upper hand; many of the works at the exhibition exude ambivalence toward the country's rampant materialism and unchecked urban growth. Liang Juhui's Floating Transported uses video projection to simulate living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Art Scene: the Naked Truth | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...circa 1616-18) by Cristofano Allori of Judith, attended by her nurse, holding the decapitated head of her would-be rapist Holofernes. (The model for Holofernes was Allori himself; for Judith, his real-life lover, known as La Mazzafirra). Far from being etiolated or artificial, it is almost as realist as a Caravaggio, though much classier in the opulence of Judith's robes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mighty Medici | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...Many East Timorese are now calling for Gusmao to play a bigger part in government beyond his largely ceremonial role as President. At the very least, his character is above reproach. A realist, Gusmao also recognized earlier than most that independence would be no picnic. During the May celebrations, he warned people not to get carried away, telling them patience would be needed. If last week's unrest is any indicator, East Timorese are already running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Up in Smoke | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...circa 1616-18) by Cristofano Allori of Judith, attended by her nurse, holding the decapitated head of her would-be rapist Holofernes. (The model for Holofernes was Allori himself; for Judith, his real-life lover, known as La Mazzafirra). Far from being etiolated or artificial, it is almost as realist as a Caravaggio, though much classier in the opulence of Judith's robes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mighty Medici | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...Crazed is narrated by Jian Wan, a literature grad student whose transformation is at the center of the novel. Rational to the point of detachment, yet endowed with the seeds of a turbulent inner life, he's an ideal if slightly tiresome mouthpiece for Jin's realist voice. When his mentor, Professor Yang, suffers an "unsettling" stroke, Jian dutifully cares for him but worries that the job will interfere with his upcoming exams. Unlike his passionate professor, who suffered in the Cultural Revolution for declaring that Goethe was a great poet, Jian barely cares for literature, studying only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling the Pressure | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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