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...Being Exposed to the Populace is rather more pointed. Playing masterfully with light and darkness, the painter chooses to depict a scene from ancient Rome wherein naked Christian virgins are being lasciviously peddled by slave traders. "Hidalgo wanted to say that the virgins are actually the Philippines," explains Joyce Toh, an assistant curator at the Singapore Art Museum. "It's an allegory about persecution under the Spanish...
...rows of smiling women harvesting rice in verdant fields, with a vibrancy unpleasantly reminiscent of the chirpy Technicolor Hollywood musicals that were playing in Manila cinema halls during his lifetime. Not surprisingly, "a lot of [modern] artists felt Amorsolo's work was too romanticized and they rejected it," says Toh...
...Indeed, it wasn't until the overthrow of Marcos in the mid-1980s that artists were freed of the burden of representing the Philippines. "After Marcos left, the scene exploded and became plural," says Toh. Ranging from the dark paintings of Javier, whose lonely ash-gray landscapes owe as much to film noir as to Manila's inescapable haze, to the surrealism of Ventura, Philippine art has finally become, as Mashadi puts it, "post-ideological." And it is this mature quality that has caught the attention of the Asian art market. Philippine artists today have scattered in their own interesting...
Diversity, Mother of Invention Toh Peng Sun arrived from Singapore via Antwerp. He's a fashion designer, and he now lives in a light-filled apartment along one of the city's many canals. "Suddenly I could breathe," he says. "This is a whole city of people who don't fit in anywhere else." Sun is still trying to figure out his own niche. He's been working with his sister on plans for a brand he's calling "Fashion for World Peace," though so far, it's just a logo and a promotional video. Watching him develop ideas...
...This is a significant step toward assembling a complete parts list for the human genome,” he added. Mikkelsen and fellow researchers have found that the majority of the DNA common to all three mammals was significant for their growth and development. Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, the first author of the Nature paper and co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis program at the Broad, said that because the DNA sequences, or haplotypes, are much longer in dogs than in humans, a canine genetic map can be used instead of the human genome to identify the haplotypes responsible...