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...ability of printmaking to augment the depth of original paintings or sketches is the reason artists persist with the techniques. The new print exhibition of Indonesian pop artist Agus Suwage, running at the STPI from Sept. 26 to Oct. 24, is a case in point. Agus began his residency at the Tyler Institute in January with a desire to protest a 2008 Indonesian antipornography law that he felt curbed the freedom of women and artists like himself. "It affects pluralism and Indonesia needs to be pluralistic," he says...
...that channel noise-rock and new wave influences into a revivalist genre often described as “Nu Gaze.” Nu Gaze acts are prone to two common pitfalls: they can be little more than cheap imitations of their legendary forebears, and they can fail to augment their aural attack with subtlety. HEALTH, to their credit, have avoided the path of mere derivation. As with their fellow L.A. scenesters No Age, one of the few bands to successfully grapple with Nu Gaze in recent years, the four piece has created a brutal, hybrid sound that is entirely...
Today, HMC’s Policy Portfolio aims to include a positive cash reserve of 2 percent, whereas the University had previously been borrowing a small percentage of additional money to invest—a practice that can augment gains but also magnify losses...
...issue isn't weather. It's whether there will be rooms for everybody. The official word is, "FIFA believes there is sufficient quality accommodation in South Africa." But FIFA boss Sepp Blatter has basically ordered organizers to augment the room supply with cruise ships. Tamara Cohen, a South African who is a travel consultant in Charlotte, N.C., says that while FIFA's got all the major hotels and chains booked solid, there are other options, including private homes available for rent, boutique hotels, B&Bs and guesthouses. "This type of accommodation has exploded in South Africa in the past...
...wake of Kim's recent, relentless belligerence, has made it clear that preventing the proliferation of missiles and other weapons of mass destruction is what drives U.S. policy now. On June 30, the Administration imposed unilateral U.S. sanctions on two North Korean companies engaged in proliferation - sanctions that will "augment efforts to curtail the North Korean regime's ability to develop and sell WMD and missiles," says Bruce Klingner, former North Korea analyst at the CIA, now a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. One of the firms sanctioned, called Hong Kong Electronics and located on Kish Island...