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...ensure that our heroes and villains remain true to themselves. In this way, we feel empathy for them. Imagine our sense of betrayal if we found out at the end of Moby Dick that Captain Ahab had lost his leg in a riding accident rather than to a whale. If the events that define a character's personality and interaction with the world have been greatly embellished or never occurred, a story loses its meaning and power to move. Frey's A Million Little Pieces cannot, as the author espouses, contain emotional truth, since the principal character, Frey...
...there is that represented by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Since his 2002 election, Lula has worked with the markets, introducing reforms to increase income equality. Although corruption scandals have become a Katrina for his political capital, and might even sink his reelection campaign, his whale-sized Brazil sails toward a richer more equal future...
...Vancouver show includes his three massive mock whale skeletons--Shapeshifter, 2000; Cetology, 2002; and Vienna, 2003--all made from white plastic stackable lawn chairs. Even close up they look like the extravaganzas of bone formation beloved of natural-history museums. But in each of the lawn-chair "skeletons," nature becomes culture becomes nature again in an endless loop. These sea shapes are made of plastic, a product derived from oil, which is itself derived from condensed, fossilized creatures. And history, natural and otherwise, is complicated. Whaling was once a staple occupation of the Pacific Coast native peoples, until blubber...
...have never seen a whale before. It's not something that happens too often in London." LOUISE KEEN, London medical-school administrator, on a northern bottle-nosed whale that drew crowds after becoming stranded in the River Thames. Despite attempts to save the 5-m-long mammal, it later died aboard a rescue vessel
...artist Brian Jungen. On display in Jungen's hometown solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery until April 30 are works ironically recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Dane-zaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British Columbia, and moved to Vancouver as a teenager, is of mixed Indian-Swiss parentage. His origins inform his best-known work, Prototypes for New Understanding, above, a series that...