In the build-up to the Saatchi Gallery's new exhibition, The Empire Strikes
Back: Indian Art Today, which opens on January 29, there has been much
hopeful talk about how it will revive the fortunes of the market for
contemporary Indian art. ...
No elephant dung, no glitter, no textured, collaged surfaces. It's all a bit of a shock. But do we like Ofili's new work?I'd seen some of Chris Ofili's new work in the lavish new Rizzoli book he has helped put together. Even so, after walking past so many greatest hits and old friends in the galleries at London's Tate Britain, where his latest career survey opens to the public tomorrow, I got a jolt when I walked into the final pair of rooms, filled with his most recent work. In the first, the p...
Don't Hate! Chris (1982, Calgary, Canada) what drew you into the graffiti, cartoons & children's books world? Well cartoons and childrens books were a big part of growing up, for most people id assume. That just stuck with me over the ......
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Published 26-Jan-10
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En sådan här växtpress skapade ångest hos mången skolelev i varje fall på 40-talet. I biologiundervisningen ingick att som hemläxa under sommarlovet samla in ett antal växter till ett eget herbarium. Det skulle granskas av läraren och betygsättas.
Den insamlade växten skulle ha alla växtdelar med. Den lades mellan gråpapper som har stor uppsugningsförmåga. Det gällde att lägga växten snyggt, helst så man kunde se både över- och undersidan av blad och blommor. Blå blommor ville inte behålla fär...
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Published 26-Jan-10
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Have you been feeling increasingly claustrophobic when you walk through People's Square? Tired of waiting on long lines just to cram your way onto a train? Does your daily commute make you feel like you're in a bad infomercial about overpopulation? Well, you're not alone: over five million people use Shanghai's transportation system every day, and they probably feel the same way you do.
Granted, Shanghai's transportation system is pretty good: The trains are fast and efficient, the subway s...
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Published 26-Jan-10
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Before Warren Buffett invested in the company, few investors outside China knew much about BYD, a Chinese manufacturer of batteries for mobile phones. Then Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway paid $231 million for a 9.9% stake in BYD, attracted by the company’s diversification into autos, especially electric cars. Buffett’s investment triggered an amazing surge in BYD’s Hong Kong-listed stock price, which has gone up 550% since news of the Buffett investment broke in September 2008.
Might lightning s...
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Published 26-Jan-10
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Stephen Colbert praised Harold Ford's chutzpah on his show last night, saying it takes guts to politick so poorly in the city that's home to Page Six and Cindy Adams. Jon Stewart gave us a preview of campaign commercials we may see in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent ruling, and Craig Ferguson participated in some old-fashioned Leno bashing. Jay Leno, for his part, had his hands full with John Mayer. Watch our compilation to see what you missed.
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Crime Dog: Forest Whitaker is close to locking down the lead role in a CBS spinoff of Criminal Minds. The show will focus on a group of criminal profilers working outside of the FBI apparatus. Rogues! Whitaker will play the group's charismatic leader and an awesome criminal profiler who has been out of the game for eight years. Unless his technique involves martial arts and pigeons, Whitaker's prodigious talents are going to be severely underused here. [THR]
Larry the Traveling Guy: As a p...
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Kandinsky Exhibition Helps Set New Attendance Record for 2009
Record-breaking attendance at the museum has been recorded for 2009,
the fiftieth-anniversary year of the landmark building designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright. ...
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Published 25-Jan-10
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When a vast white horse as tall as Nelson’s Column was unveiled a year ago as the art work chosen to become England’s “Angel of the South”, critics eulogised the boldness and beauty of the gargantuan sculpture to be placed on a scrubby Kent hillside towering over the ancient route between London and Dover. ...
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Published 15-Jan-10
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