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...says Suzanne Lecht, the American director of the Art Vietnam Gallery in Hanoi. "Artists who could barely afford anything a few years ago can now drive luxury cars." But the rapid cash inflow has put commercial pressure on these artists to churn out foreigner-friendly images that don't stretch their imaginations. Many galleries are complicit, preferring to stock interchangeable images of women in conical hats strolling past crumbling French architecture. "Art students know they can make a good living painting these themes," says Gang of Five painter Luong. "It's difficult to convince them to be adventurous...
...Whatever. It's just the regular season. It means about as much as Isiah Thomas swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's an 82-game stretch of coaches trying not to get fired and players trying not to get microfractures. So don't worry, Portland fans, Greg Oden will be back when it counts - his contract year...
...boozed cross-dressers, walking food products and pop-culture oddities slowly crawling about at almost 1:30 Sunday morning, closing time here. But Molly Kelley, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed at the large unpopulated gaps of littered concrete from a balcony overlooking the seven-block stretch. "Two years ago this place was packed like sardines," she says. "You couldn't move. Either you got run over by [police] horses or climbed on light poles...
...race finished, we staked out a spot on the corner of JFK Street and Memorial Drive to cheer on the women. But instead of seeing a group of ladies jockeying for position as they ran our way, there was only one solitary figure charging down the stretch at a seemingly impossible rate, leaving the rest of the pack choking on her dust at least 500 yards behind...
...Japanese koto has 13 silk strings.THREE ZEE PLUSIIIZ+ faces substantial challenges, not the least of which is their unique long-distance arrangement.The four members currently live separately in Berlin, Juneau, Taipei, and New York, respectively. Coordinating international tours and scheduling practice times can be a bit of a stretch.“That’s why we try to get residences,” Chung explains, referring to programs where artists are given space to live and work at reduced cost. After finishing a residence at MIT, they are returning for another stay at the Peabody Essex Museum...