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Nobody else in American art had such a strong sense of the sinister. It breathes through such early constructions as Mad House, 1958--a parody of the House of Horrors that isn't quite a parody because its contents are more subtle than you would expect, mere hauntings rather than...
Still, Dragon does have a strong kinship to Asian melodramas. The sinister inspecteur is in the '90s Hong Kong movie tradition of Danny Lee's defective detectives and Anthony Wong's beastly cops. Li uses chopsticks as surgical probes (martial-arts stars have done that for decades) and hurtles away...
Across the street from the village chief's wood-frame house, however, in a little bar where two Vietnamese men sit drinking bottled Bia Lao beer, smoking A-daeng cigarettes and spitting onto the concrete floor, there is plenty of opium. Several foreigners are already in the back-room den...
The anti-globalization protesters have grown now into a permanent nomadic tribe - all wired, and indeed globalized, by Internet and cell phones - that follows the G-8 and the WTO and the other Sinister Suits of the Haves from city to city around the world in the way that bands...
I am flattered but not exactly reassured by his assessment. My project is vaguely about a religious site in Jerusalem’s Old City that has taken on an increased political significance in the Middle East peace process. Known as the Temple Mount in Judaism and as the Noble...