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...Dharmsala protestors, who are being detained in a hotel because the local prison can't accommodate them, say they are unsure what to do next, but they also say they are inspired by protests being carried out inside Tibet by hundreds of monks. Says Tsering: "The spirit of fighting for rights and for freedom is very strong in the hearts of Tibetan people no matter where they...
...Kicked out of power eight years ago, the KMT had grown out of touch with Taiwan's increasingly vibrant democratic environment. After ruling for so many decades, most of the time through authoritarian regimes, the KMT was corrupt, imperial and slow to adapt to the rising spirit of Taiwanese identity. Since its landmark 2000 electoral loss, however, the KMT has learned to be more democratic and open to public sentiment, and it found a new message, oddly enough, in its historical ties to China. As Lin Chong-pin, president of the Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies, puts...
...question for this Biennial, which runs through June 1, and for art at large, is whether lessness can amount to more than that. Without question, there's a tumbledown, slacker spirit among some of the 81 artists that Huldisch and Momin have selected. Yet they also chose just enough work in which the materials may be humble but the ambitions are larger. New York artist Heather Rowe has adapted ideas from the late Gordon Matta-Clark, who sawed entire houses into parts to expose their strange and poignant innards. Rowe builds her own wooden frameworks, embedded with shards of mirrors...
...might saythat my childhood insularity was a formof hereditary protection in whose shade,like a pale, delicate mushroom, I grew.”)She excels at sports, and one fateful daymeets and beats the Crown Prince in agame of tennis. The Prince falls in lovewith her beautiful spirit, and so beginsthe rest of her life.Japan has the world’s oldest hereditarymonarchy, and Haruko’s life ischoked with thousands of years’ worthof accrued ceremony: the 15 kilogramsof traditional clothing Haruko wears onher wedding day, the seven-day namingprocess for her first son. The monotonyand constriction...
...andretro outfits? What are all these smokemachines and Van Buren-esque muttonchops doing in my gangsta rap video?How did Snoop’s bed gain the momentumto break Earth’s gravitational pull?Snoop Dogg has made the unusualdecision at this part of his career to resurrectthe spirit of the Zapp Band—an80s electro-funk phenomenon. A lot ofthe production on this album is a soupof keyboards and soul samples, syrupyR&B crooners, and cheesy synthesizergrooves—a collage of post-gangsta postcrunkelectro experimentation. The videofor “Sensual Seduction” takes itself...