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...tanks--corroded ruins of the industrial age--were reborn as archaeological monuments among newly planted groves and grasslands. And the designer, Peter Latz, didn't hesitate to directly invade the factory precincts with trees and smaller plantings, playgrounds and rock-climbing walls. By that means the derelict factory was woven back into the world of the living. The past, instead of operating as a burden--something the Germans know all about--becomes the very opposite, a plaything for the present. If history starts looking like a cage, who says you can't use it for monkey bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Walk on the Wild Side | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp is arming and training Iraqis to kill Americans. The IRGC has been killing Americans for almost three decades. It has been operating freely in Iraq since the first Gulf War in 1990. And that's the problem - the IRGC is now so deeply woven into the Iraqi fabric that there's nothing we can do about it - short of invading Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell the Truth About the Surge | 1/17/2007 | See Source »

...time Matisse journeyed to Tahiti in 1930, the transformation was already well underway. While Pacific Islanders had woven pandanus fiber and painted mulberry bark for thousands of years, fashioning ceremonial objects of great spiritual and aesthetic value, these mats and tapa cloths would undergo a revolution with the help of needle and thread brought by missionaries. In Hawaii and Tahiti, appliqu?d quilts (kapa kuiki and tifaifai, respectively) overtook tapa in importance, while to the west sewing was incorporated into the making of fine mats, fringed now with wool rather than feathers, turning these traditional markers of weddings, births and funerals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perfect Mats | 1/3/2007 | See Source »

...Culturally precious, yes, but do they belong in a modern art museum? Designed to be sat and slept on rather than scrutinized, these textile treasures, which are typically stacked high to connote social standing, delightfully confound our expectations of contemporary art. So how does Finau Mara's exquisitely woven baby mat fit with, say, British artist Tracey Emin's unmade bed? It was exactly this outsider status that made the QAG's curator of contemporary Pacific art, Maud Page, excited about bringing such material into a gallery. As she puts it, "How can we deal with the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perfect Mats | 1/3/2007 | See Source »

...transform these tapestries into serenely subversive artistic statements. When Englishman John Williams brought Christianity to Samoa in 1830, he could not have imagined the extent to which it would become enmeshed in the complex weave of Samoan society. Laupule Poutasi's fala su'i captures this perfectly. In this woven heirloom mat, masculine symbols of authority, including the royal coat of arms, are supremely feminized, including a pair of hibiscus flowers added by Poutasi's daughter Tusi Luafutu when she emigrated to Australia in 1991. It's quite clear who rules the roost. Played out in these textiles are imaginative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perfect Mats | 1/3/2007 | See Source »

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