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...wing of the resistance tolerate, help and protect each other, but they don't like each other much. One of the people listening to Jamal is Aslan, a senior officer in the anti-Russian forces during the first Chechen war from 1994 to 1996. He's clearly still in touch with Maskhadov's guerrillas. Aslan recalls that after the first war, he and other officers suspicious of the Wahhabis' growing clout volunteered to help wipe them out. Maskhadov seemed to agree with the idea, Aslan says, but ultimately, "he was too cowardly to give us the order." These days...
...piece by Franz Erhard Walther made up of a large rectangular piece of cream-colored canvas with its two back corners hooked into the wall and the rest of the cloth piled in an untidy heap on the floor. The label said this was another piece I could touch, and I tried to determine what I was supposed to do with it. Only this was ten times worse than looking at “Wave;” now I was self-conscious because of the guard watching me from across the room. What a ludicrous situation: Just...
...pleased to announce that, in my experience, the artists were modestly successful on both counts. As far as their political agenda of subverting the traditional museum-going and sculpture-viewing experience, they got me to touch the sculptures and talk to the museum guard, experiences prompting me to think about the structure of a museum as a social institution in ways that more traditional sculpture certainly does not. And on the experiential side, I did genuinely enjoy interacting with some of the pieces; “Head Body Limbs,” in particular. There was something strangely satisfying about...
...some things want to be taken.” Just as Henry only brings his fractured family together by stealing them, Roberts has shown that he’s not just “digging up shit,” but reassembling a borrowed genre with a subtle touch...
...sentencing, you want to show remorse...touch the heartstrings of the particular judge,” Elikann said...