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...argue issues of individual responsibility as a way of curbing demand. The British understood this perfectly when they went to war with China to for opium addiction upon the Asiatic masses as a means of repatriating much of the empire's national treasure, then being spent on oriental silk, tea and gold...
Green velvet, black silk, silver spandex and tweed jackets flash as 30 men and women line up by team outside the shiny wooden dance floor...
...night, you're stumbling to a party through mists of rain, the brain clouded with a few spirits. At the soiree, as you leave your coat and gloves with the attendant, and your presence is announced to the assembled gathering, you suddenly see, through a passing haze of colored silk and crystal glass, a man/woman to your liking. Unfortuately the necessary preamble of introduction and mutual mental exploration simply isn't within your power. Call the spin-doctor. Along trots Dr. Spin, who meets your beloved's spinner. "Tony's on form tonight, a bit of drink, but nothing...
Warhol challenged the accepted definition of art by experimenting with the border between originality and mass production. He used popular images of objects and celebrities and silk-screened them on to canvases, often varying color combinations. This exhibit contains some classic Warhol subjects, including Chairman Mao, Jackie Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe. One corner of the exhibition space is devoted to a pile of Kellogg's Cornflakes packing box replicas. Carpenters made these wooden boxes to the exact dimensions of the actual ones; Warhol's assistants silk-screened the letters onto the pieces...
Splendors contains many objects from the daily lives of the sultans. They ate from Chinese porcelain plates with rock crystal utensils. Young princes were dressed in silk-lined caftans emblazoned with tulips and pomegranates and rocked to sleep in hazelnut cradles plated in silver and sprinkled with emeralds and diamonds. When they went to war, they donned conical helmets decorated with floral patterns and studded with turquoise and rubies, fought with ivory-inlaid muskets and swords and slept in satin-lined field tents. Even their horses pranced around in gold-plated headgear and golden stirrups...