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...attests that “He’s the type of guy I want to set my girlfriends up with.” Alas, ladies, Smith has been in a committed relationship with a Northwestern senior for two and a half years. His room is a shrine to their relationship, wallpapered with images...
...Tokyo artist Masato Nakamura, whose shrine of McDonald's arches recently graced the Venice Biennale, comments on a different kind of war?a cultural one. For his Sydney installation Minimal Selves, 2001, Nakamura liaised with eight convenience-store chains to reproduce their neon logos in a darkened gallery space. While such works might suggest the victory of Western corporate culture over Tokyo's skyline, the effect is peculiarly Japanese. Beautifully serene, not submissive, Nakamura's lightbox logos form a chapel in which the viewer can meditate on the future. Having grown up in "this neon generation," he says...
...Shaolin is now one of China's most popular tourist destinations and impoverished Henan's most reliable cash cow. The temple drew more than a million visitors last year. For $5 they get a tour of the spruced-up shrine with a local guide well-versed in its elaborately embroidered history. Picturesquely decrepit old-timers man donation boxes at each stop along the way, and then it's off to buy tiny brass Buddhas and plastic prayer beads at stalls crowding the temple's gates. For martial arts displays, a lucky visitor might spot a young boy in a monk...
...Mazar has tremendous historical and religious significance in Afghanistan. It contains a shrine to Ali, the nephew of the Prophet Muhammad who is revered by the Shiite Muslims. And, of course, Hazari ethnic group, which makes up much of the city's population and some 20 percent of Afghanistan, are Shiite - which is why the Sunni Taliban took such delight in taking it from them...
...area around ground zero is an odd combination of makeshift shrine and museum. Each intersection going down Broadway has been blocked off by a fence covered with pictures and cards, and each provides a different glimpse into the Twin Towers wreck. Some views are better than others—John Street and Dey Street are particularly good—and hundreds of tourists move from block to block and stare as if they were moving from exhibit to exhibit at the Met. There are signs prohibiting video and photography but, just like at any NYC tourist attraction that forbids them...