Word: urban
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...India: Urban Cowboys...
...India: Urban Cowboys...
...India: Urban Cowboys...
...intricate sound and lighting plots, rich costumes brought from India, even a cinema screen that can split into four to help depict the different narrative strands. The operating principle, says Rushdie, is excess. "Everything in this stage version should be excessive, sensual, tumultuous, colorful. That was my view of urban India in that period." After a five-week run in London, the show will go to the U.S., first to Ann Arbor, Michigan, then New York, where Columbia University will present it at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater. Rushdie, who now lives in New York, loves the idea...
...workers that emerge out of the ground like ghosts from the Cultural Revolution. Sincerity jousts with irony, old communist values with new China's avarice. Greed, of course, has the upper hand; many of the works at the exhibition exude ambivalence toward the country's rampant materialism and unchecked urban growth. Liang Juhui's Floating Transported uses video projection to simulate living in China's cramped, anonymous cities, while the desolate black-and-white photos of artist Rong Rong's Ruin Series document the remains of demolished Beijing neighborhoods. Xu Bing's delightful Guangdong Wild Zebra Herd features four donkeys...