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...City raised a record $15 million, including just under $800,000 for Captives, a stark evocation of desiccated torsos by New Delhi-born Rameshwar Broota. Two months later, an auction in London elicited $1.42 million for a Tantric-inspired oil painting by India's Syed Haider Raza. Even in Vietnam, idyllic rural scenes coated in the country's distinctive lacquer that sold for a few hundred dollars a few years ago are now selling for 10 times that. A gouache-and-ink painting by Vietnamese post-impressionist Le Pho, whose work is part of the permanent exhibition at the Modern...
...developing economies still denote the world's factories - its cheap call centers and efficient manufacturers of every gizmo imaginable. Yet that narrative coexists with another more compelling tale: that of a rising continent intent on recapturing its former glory. The Chinese dragon wakes, mother India rises. Even little tiger Vietnam is finding its roar. Outsiders looking to ride this remarkable wave have invested heavily in prosaic sectors like real estate or manufacturing, but now the region's rich contemporary-art scene is also beckoning. "Wherever the economy booms, art booms," says Ganieve Grewal, the Mumbai-based representative for Christie...
...think Vietnam's rapid modernization is affecting its food scene? -Lien Murakami, Oakland, Calif.Yeah, I worry about that... With any rising middle class and exploding economy come fusion restaurants with crappy food and novelty martinis...
...International Criminal Court, and an open letter to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales signed by over 100 American law professors have had no trouble with correctly defining waterboarding as a revolting and illegal form of torture. Even Republican candidate John McCain, who was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, has openly expressed his disapproval of waterboarding, telling the New York Times that “All I can say is that it was used in the Spanish Inquisition, it was used in Pol Pot’s genocide in Cambodia, and there are reports that it is being used...
...Strike may have had the support of a multi-ethnic constituency at Harvard, but many of the affirmative voters were motivated by the other issues in question, particularly the elimination of the ROTC program in order to demonstrate the University’s opposition to the Vietnam War. Ten years later, when the Coalition for Awareness and Action included strengthening the Afro-American Studies Department in a list of objectives for a second student strike, the response was underwhelming. “Afro-Am?” one sophomore said in a 1979 article published in the Crimson...