Word: taub
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...produced glass work - usually vases or bowls - the creations of today's glass artists bear little relation to either the functional or the merely ornamental pieces of yore. "People often confuse glass with craft, but you just have to look at a work to realize the difference," says Vanessa Taub, a Hong Kong-based art dealer and proponent of Chinese glass sculpture. She points to a piece by Zhuang - a sensual, almost abstract female nude emerging from the luminous, semitranslucent matter. "You can't confuse that with a glass or a bottle." There's no mistaking a bargain, either. Chinese...
Second, Wilson and Taub almost completely ignore the city’s politics, something that has long been intertwined with race and class...
...white neighborhood that has a growing Hispanic population. For anyone with a moderate understanding of the geography of Chicago, my lifelong home, it’s not hard to figure out Beltway’s true identity. There are only two neighborhoods that are, as Wilson and Taub say, sandwiched between Midway Airport and the city limits, and only one matches the demographics outlined in the book. (In an e-mail, Wilson said that he could not confirm the identities of the neighborhoods...
Wilson and Taub do an excellent job detailing the lives of the average residents of the four neighborhoods they examine. While one may have hoped for a timelier book with more cross-neighborhood, city-wide analysis, their method of zeroing in on individual residents and organizations has its strength: it makes the book more relevant to other cities, even as it misses some of what makes Chicago Chicago...
...There Goes the Neighborhood By William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub Knopf...