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...warn that wireless-rigged clairvoyants in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are duping the distraught families of MIA soldiers from the Vietnam War. Their pitch: by combining their sixth sense with cellular technology, they can help families find the remains of their lost kin. After a consultation, a seer draws a map supposedly locating the missing body. The family then heads to the site?usually in the countryside?and calls the seer by mobile for additional instructions ("See that banana tree? A little to its left"). Some psychics claim they're getting up to 100 inquiries...
...There are more than 300,000 Vietnamese soldiers missing from the war, and Hanoi is warning that clairvoyants are duping distraught relatives of MIA soldiers with claims of a 70% success rate in tracking down loved ones' remains--with the help of cell phones. After an initial consultation, a seer draws a map with the location of the missing body. The family heads to the site and makes cell-phone contact to narrow the search, receiving instructions like "See that banana tree? A little to its left." One psychic agency claims it's getting up to 100 inquiries...
...main vehicle for it, the special medium through which he staked his claims as seer, prophet and bard, was the hand-etched and -printed book. Part of Blake's uniqueness is that you cannot separate his writings from his art. He was probably the first major European artist of whom this was true. Illuminated manuscripts had been done for hundreds of years before his birth, but usually the script was by one person and the decoration by another, while the actual text had originally been composed by a third...
...Marcus Aurelius to Pope Innocent III, Hitler to Freud. By then, his eminence had become a cloak that he wore with cool majesty. It was like his "mischievous dolphin smile that spreads and flits away" (John le Carre's words). That smile was tight, wary and tinged with a seer's sadness; it invited affection but repelled intimacy. Emerging from a Guinness film, spectators wondered, "Who was that unmasked...
...opening ceremony how much the mind rewrites itself over time: only Buren remembered what he had done with his box, while the other three artists were as surprised as the audience by the contents. Ironically, the Time Boxes project reinforces that modernist art historical notion of the artist as seer, able to represent the truth behind experience. We have faith that these creators can distill the very essence of their age; we expect the quiddity of the object to be revealed. Yet these capsules, because of their quarter-century embalming, take authorship away from the artists. Works of art necessarily...