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...particularly cool (and free!) event features the white-hot and very far-out electro-pop duo Fischerspooner. They won’t be performing, but will instead be showing an exhibition of 4x6 photos (that’s 4x6 feet, not inches) and giving away refreshments and copies of their new CD. The Capitol Records-sponsored party takes place all day on April...
...clan lands, Mawurndjul's family mine a pure white clay, believed to be the essence of Ngalyod, which forms the foundation for his paintings. In recent years, Mawurndjul has allowed ever larger swathes of delek to shine through, as bright as the sun or the flick of a rainbow serpent's tail. Perhaps viewers should wear sunglasses to the show. Captured here is the white-hot flash of an art in motion; who knows where it might go next...
...Swallow show soon. If so, its speed control could prove useful. The pace with which Swallow has risen in the art world is staggering: in 1999, aged 25, he went from being on the dole to winning the $A100,000 Contempora 5 Art Prize in Melbourne, followed by a white-hot career based in Los Angeles and now London. That rapidity contrasts with the stillness of his work. With his best-known piece, the head of Darth Vader made from layers of charcoal MDF board (Model for a Sunken Monument, 1999), there's a sense that time is warping before...
COVER: THE CHINA GLUT A6 Are the country's white-hot factories producing too many goods? How will that affect the rest of the world...
...Krakatoa (HarperCollins; 416 pages), Simon Winchester takes an event that happened in a white-hot second and expands it in both directions, filling in the backstory and aftershocks to create a mesmerizing page turner. When Krakatoa erupted, at 10:02 a.m. on Aug. 27, 1883, it vaporized a 2,600-ft. mountain, created waves that killed a woman 2,000 miles away and produced spectacular sunsets as distant as New York City. But Winchester, who wrote the best-selling The Professor and the Madman, finds human stories in the island's troubled history that dwarf even the volcanic...